Expand my plastic recycling business

Emmanuel

Accra, Ghana

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Entrepreneur

Name

Emmanuel

Member since

January 2020

On-time repayments

90 installments • 41%

About Me

My early life has been around an environment full of life and green. My father was a public servant who still loved his farming activities on a piece of land where he had his quarters. He grew everything we ate and used the waste which came out of his backyard farm and left over food for something very important which is linked to his hobby. I then learned from that stage what it means to see value in everything around us including what most people will term as waste. I developed an interest in wanting to see my environment as clean as possible from any kind of waste.
As my parents were interested in me doing the sciences which will end me as medical practitioner, I was so much interested in effective management of resources for the good of everyone around me. I started with business courses in the Senior High and eventually Bsc Business Administration in the university.
I learnt entrepreneurship along the way and I am an entrepreneur who sees opportunities in my environment and takes advantage of them. I have passion for clean and pollution free environment. I love nature and I believe that there is nothing called waste here on mother earth.
Ghana the country in which I leave has potential opportunities and for both citizens and the entire continent of Africa but the the poor management of resources has landed the country in abject poverty. My dream is contribute to the clean Ghana campaign which has been started for sometime so that my children can grow up in country in which they believe and are proud of.
I love to sit at the beautiful coasts of Ghana whiles I enjoy the beauty of nature at my free time.

My Business

I currently work with a government agency in Ghana called NIA (National Identification Authority). That is currently my main source of income. However, I have worked in plastic waste management as my own initiative in 2016 and I was making between ghc 800 - ghc 1,000 in week by just buying plastic waste from house holds and selling them to recycling plants. This was profitable until there was a huge flood in June 3, 2016 which wiped me out of business.
My business model is to create concrete blocks, pavement bricks and roofing tiles from plastic and sand using the plastic wastes collected from my business collaborators.
Collaborators are motivated with some amounts of monies, house hold items and educational materials for their wards as a form of compensation to keep our relationship.

Loan Proposal

This loan disbursement will help me get to the target I have set for myself and business first and foremost. As I make some profit from this loan, I will make a part payment for a tricycle which is commonly used for waste transport to dumping sites by most organizations here in Ghana. I will also expand the storage center where I keep plastic waste (inventory) since the where I am currently is still a flood prone area. Expanding here means that I look for another outlet in a different location where plastic waste is very common but difficult to manage.

Income Source

In this season of coranavirus, things are a bit slow but business such as sanitation and waste management still runs since it is considered as essential services through out the world. During the partial lock-down here in my country, my kind of business was still allowed to run if only business operators will follow all the necessary protective protocols. This therefore means that waste management business will still run perfectly during this time, however, there might be delays but the ultimate progress wont be destructed.