{"id":989069,"date":"2021-12-20T07:02:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T07:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrand.ai\/connect\/?p=989069"},"modified":"2021-12-20T07:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T07:06:27","slug":"taka-taka-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/2021\/12\/taka-taka-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Taka Taka Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Effective solid waste management through recycling of plastics and other flexi materials. The story of Nicholas Muraguri, a waste picker in Thika, Kiambu County.\u00a0<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Nicholas is a 23-year old waste-picker at the Thika dumpsite in Kenya. When you first meet him, you’d think he’s merely foraging through waste. Except, he’s one of the hundreds of waste-pickers who supply\u00a0<\/span>TakaTaka Solutions<\/span><\/a>\u00a0with assorted plastic waste for recycling.<\/span><\/p>

On a good day, Nicholas, working with his small team of 10 other pickers can supply up to 600kg of plastics, earning at KES12\/kg. In the last 2 years, he has saved enough to buy a small piece of land at Magorofani area and intends to construct a house for his family.<\/span><\/p>

At the Recycling Plant in Banana area, Hannah, a 32-year old mother of 1, a former nursery school teacher who lost her job due to the covid-19 pandemic, is among many others who work as waste-sorters whose jobs entirely rely on quantities delivered by the waste-pickers. She earns a daily wage of KES500 determined by availability of waste to be sorted.<\/span><\/p>

At the\u00a0<\/span>Kenya Catalytic Jobs Fund<\/span><\/a>\u00a0we have partnered with\u00a0<\/span>TakaTaka Solutions<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to expand and scale up collection and recycling of assorted plastic waste into pellets that are sold to companies that manufacture non-food plastic containers. Cleaner, safer environment + jobs!<\/span><\/p>



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Effective solid waste management through recycling of plastics and other flexi materials. The story of Nicholas Muraguri, a waste picker in Thika, Kiambu County.\u00a0 Nicholas is a 23-year old waste-picker at the Thika dumpsite in Kenya. When you first meet him, you’d think he’s merely foraging through waste. Except, he’s one of the hundreds of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":989073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact-case-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989069"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989079,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989069\/revisions\/989079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}