Blancos is an organization comprised of youths/students who are committed to promoting sustainable waste management practices and reducing the amount of waste that goes to landfills. Through our door-to-door collection services, community outreach efforts, and partnerships with local organizations and businesses, we aim to make recycling accessible and convenient for everyone.
The goal of waste collection is to promote public health and safety, protect the environment, and minimize the negative impact of waste on society.
Environmental protection: Recycling helps to conserve natural resources, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and preserve wildlife habitats by reducing the need for new raw materials.
Energy conservation: Recycling aluminum, for example, requires 95% less energy than producing new aluminum from raw materials..
Job creation: The waste management and recycling industry provides jobs in areas such as collection, processing, and manufacturing..
Economic benefits: Recycling can reduce the costs of waste management and create new business opportunities and revenue streams.
Improved public health: Proper waste management can help to prevent the spread of disease by reducing the presence of waste in communities.
Increased resource efficiency: By recovering and reusing valuable materials, recycling helps to conserve finite resources and reduce the need to extract new raw materials.
Reduction in pollution: Recycling helps to reduce the environmental pollution associated with the extraction, production, and transportation of new raw materials.
We buy plastic waste and fine biomass (e.g. sawdust, rice husks, coffee husks, macadamia dust e.t.c). We have ongoing requirement for fine biomass and plastic scrap particularly HDPE and PP polythenes. Learn more about the different types of plastic at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic.
Interested suppliers are requested to kindly send us pictures of the material they wish to offer along with their best offer (KShs/kg or US$/kg) via email on info@blancos.co.ke or WhatsApp on +254 758 277 793.
HDPE - High Density Polyethylene such as supermarket (Nakumatt / Uchumu etc) shopping bags and the black, green and yellow plastic carrier bags that you can get from your local kiosk. They also include milk bottles, shampoo bottles, vehicle oil containers, Elianto type containers etc.
PP - Polypropylene such as raffia bags (gunia), the Mumias sugar packaging and Kimbo, Cow Boy, Blue band types of containers.
Garbage collection companies.
Furniture manufacturers, timber yards, saw mills.
Youth and women groups involved in collecting plastic waste recyclables.
Waste collection yards in all the major towns of Kenya.
County officials dealing with waste management.
Private individuals able to source more than 1 tonne of plastic waste every week.
Industries / farms / NGOs / companies which generate plastic waste and would like a safe and secure means of disposing it.