As plastic pollution overwhelms African cities, coastlines, and forests, Ghanaian entrepreneur Cordie Aziz Nash is betting on a simple idea: make recycling local, affordable, and community-led. Through Environment360, founded in 2014, Nash has built a decentralized model that trains waste pickers, supports small entrepreneurs, and keeps plastic out of the environment. Community collection hubs in cities like Tema and Kumasi buy, sort, and upcycle plastic, while the Green Complex, an innovation hub in Dodowa, equips young people with practical circular-economy skills. Having diverted more than 500 tons of plastic and supported nearly 1,000 entrepreneurs, Nash argues that low-cost innovation—not expensive tech—will be Africa’s most powerful weapon against plastic waste.
Forbes Africa
