Q&A: What role can waste-recovery certificates play in Africa?

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As African countries strive to improve waste collection, questions remain around how recovery can be tracked, verified and financed across the region’s fragmented waste value chains. Wouter Brasem of Kolekt discusses the company’s certificate model and its role in linking waste recovery to payments.

• Mr Brasem leads business development for Kolekt in East Africa, a global waste technology company developing digital infrastructure for waste recovery, traceability and financing across markets in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

• “We see the Kolekt Certificates as the building block of proof that is urgently needed to finance the waste sector by creating a system of lean and efficient digital PROs (< 10% overheads) in African countries to handle the collection and transfer of funds on behalf of the EPR regulators and to become a fair and efficient municipal waste billing system for waste management at the municipal level,” he says.

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