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Kenya Association of Waste Recyclers is the business membership organization for the private sector industry involved in the materials Recovery from waste, this includes and is not limited to retrieval of materials from waste,repair and recycling.

Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers (KAWR), in its role in capacity building, joined the Danish Refugee Council under t...
15/09/2026

Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers (KAWR), in its role in capacity building, joined the Danish Refugee Council under the FRP II initiative for a Community Dialogue at St. John’s Community Centre, Pumwani, focused on “Promoting Health Security and Financial Resilience for Waste Pickers through the Shopping Basket Initiative.”

The dialogue brought together waste pickers, sector actors, government representatives and development partners to explore practical approaches to strengthening the livelihoods, financial resilience and recognition of waste pickers within Kenya’s circular economy.

Representing KAWR, Secretary General Richard Kainika contributed to discussions on the role of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in building a more inclusive and sustainable waste management system. KAWR emphasised that effective EPR implementation must translate into meaningful and sustained support across the waste value chain, particularly for the frontline actors who play a critical role in material recovery.

The Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry (MOECCF) was represented by Director S. Kimani, who joined stakeholders in reflecting on opportunities to strengthen collaboration between government, communities and private-sector actors in advancing sustainable waste management.

A key component of the dialogue was the ShopOkoa model, which demonstrated the importance of financial inclusion and cultivating a strong culture of saving among waste pickers. The model highlights practical approaches to building savings habits, improving access to financial services and strengthening the capacity of waste pickers to withstand economic shocks.

For KAWR, such engagements underscore the importance of combining policy inclusion, capacity building, financial resilience and market-based opportunities in supporting the people at the heart of Kenya’s material recovery systems.
A circular economy can only be truly sustainable when the people at the heart of material recovery are economically secure, recognised and meaningfully included.

*REMINDER: JOIN US TOMORROW!* Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers invites you to the Climate Change Diplomacy Sectoral...
15/09/2026

*REMINDER: JOIN US TOMORROW!*

Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers invites you to the Climate Change Diplomacy Sectoral Committee Meeting on the synergy between Waste and Climate Change.

Key discussion areas:
• How climate change affects waste and recycling businesses.
• Recording, measuring, and sharing climate-related impacts.
• Opportunities arising from quality climate data.
• What is needed for the sector to benefit from climate data opportunities.
📅 Wednesday, 16 September 2026
⏰ 3:00 PM (EAT)

🔗 Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82219767172?pwd=KnI6qRtijqqvXrmpWU7kxocPVTd0Gm.1
Meeting ID: 822 1976 7172 | Passcode: 424824
Sylvia Ochiba Muhammad Iqbal Richard Kainika Joseph Ongeri Greenco International Mtopanga river conservancy Okoa youth Martin Deporres Odera TakaTaka Solutions Havens Shoes Wesley Mutoko Wanyonyi

Don’t just feel the impact—measure it, use the data, and turn it into opportunity! Join Kenya Association Of Waste Recyc...
10/09/2026

Don’t just feel the impact—measure it, use the data, and turn it into opportunity!
Join Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers on waste and climate talk to discover how waste + climate data can drive smarter decisions, resilience, and new opportunities.

👉 SHARE IT. CIRCULATE IT. SHOW UP.
Your next climate opportunity could start here!
Muhammad Iqbal KEPRO Kenya Joseph Ongeri Richard Kainika Greenco International Mtopanga river conservancy Martin Deporres Odera TakaTaka Solutions Pakpro KENYA Havens Shoes Okoa youth Sylvia Ochiba Nema Kenya

What if the waste you throw away today could power Kenya’s economy tomorrow?From reclaiming and collecting to recycling,...
02/09/2026

What if the waste you throw away today could power Kenya’s economy tomorrow?

From reclaiming and collecting to recycling, repair, value addition, converting and milling, Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers members are turning waste into resources, jobs and opportunities every day.

To our members: WE SEE YOU. WE APPRECIATE YOU. YOUR WORK MATTERS!

💬 What are YOU doing to turn waste into value and help build a circular economy in Kenya?

Share your business, facility, product or impact story with us!
👉 Complete the sentence:
“I contribute to a circular Kenya by __________.”

Richard Kainika Muhammad Iqbal TakaTaka Solutions Havens Shoes Martin Deporres Odera Greenco International Mtopanga river conservancy Okoa youth Wesley Mutoko Wanyonyi

Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers in its role of strengthening Kenya’s waste recovery and recycling ecosystem through...
31/08/2026

Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers in its role of strengthening Kenya’s waste recovery and recycling ecosystem through capacity building, awareness creation, policy education and advocacy, conducted a capacity-building session in Kawang’ware under the Fair Recycling Project II (FRP II) in partnership with DRC Kenya, with support from The Coca-Cola Foundation.

KAWR leverages its partnerships with government, private sector, development organisations and other stakeholders to connect waste sector actors to knowledge, markets, finance, policy processes and other opportunities. The KAWR– Danish Refugee Council partnership focuses on capacity development, formalisation, improved working conditions, enterprise strengthening and increased material recovery, with FRP II targeting 30,000 tonnes of recovered materials by June 2027.

The Kawang’ware session highlighted an important market challenge: significant price disparities for the same recyclable materials across regions. While prices are influenced by several market factors, such variations can have a direct impact on reclaimers and other actors whose livelihoods depend on material sales. The discussion therefore pointed to the need for greater market transparency and exploration of mechanisms for fairer, and where feasible, more standardised pricing.

Since its commencement, FRP II has continued to engage reclaimers, aggregators and other value-chain actors through capacity building and formalisation interventions. For KAWR, this reflects its commitment to ensuring no part of the waste recovery value chain is left behind, while ensuring that the transition to a circular economy delivers both environmental gains and tangible improvements in livelihoods and enterprise resilience.
Richard Kainika Sylvia Ochiba Muchiri Antonio

Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers, together with Danish Refugee Council, conducted a capacity-building session with w...
28/08/2026

Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers, together with Danish Refugee Council, conducted a capacity-building session with waste sector actors in Dandora under the Fair Recycling Project II (FRP II), supported by The Coca-Cola Foundation.

The engagement is part of the ongoing partnership between KAWR and DRC Kenya to strengthen Kenya’s recycling ecosystem and promote fairer, more inclusive and sustainable livelihoods across the waste recovery value chain. Through FRP II, the partnership aims to facilitate the recovery and recycling of 30,000 tonnes of materials by June 2027, while supporting the formalisation and capacity development of 3,000 waste reclaimers.

For KAWR, the project is an opportunity to contribute to practical solutions that benefit the wider community of waste reclaimers, collectors, aggregators, recyclers and other sector players who keep materials moving through the recovery value chain.

Dandora provides a particularly important setting for this work. The area hosts a well-established network of waste sector actors with considerable experience in collection, sorting, aggregation and material recovery. Building on this existing ecosystem makes the project both practical and scalable, while creating opportunities to address some of the persistent challenges affecting the sector, including limited capacity, inadequate infrastructure, occupational risks, weak market linkages and barriers to formalisation.

The capacity-building sessions are therefore an important component of the project—not simply as standalone training activities, but as a means of strengthening the ability of sector actors to operate more effectively, access opportunities and participate meaningfully in Kenya’s transition towards a more circular economy.

KAWR remains committed to ensuring that the benefits of this partnership extend as widely as possible across the sector. The success of FRP II should ultimately be reflected not only in the tonnes of material recovered, but also in stronger enterprises, better working conditions, improved livelihoods and a more resilient recycling value chain.
Nema Kenya Nairobi City County Government

Today, Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers (KAWR), together with Danish Refugee Council, conducted a capacity-building...
25/08/2026

Today, Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers (KAWR), together with Danish Refugee Council, conducted a capacity-building session with waste sector actors in Dandora and Korogocho under the Fair Recycling Project II, supported by The Coca-Cola Foundation.

Dandora and Korogocho remain critical hubs in Nairobi’s waste recovery value chain, supporting thousands of livelihoods through waste collection, sorting, aggregation, and recycling. However, the sector is increasingly confronted by growing volumes of problematic and low-value waste fractions, including composite and other difficult-to-recycle materials.

The engagement highlighted the important role of brands and producers in supporting initiatives that strengthen the waste management and recycling ecosystem, whether through their EPR obligations or voluntary sustainability initiatives. Such support can help strengthen infrastructure, capacity, markets, and livelihoods across the value chain.

Ultimately, however, the most effective way to support the green transition is to address waste at the design stage. Designing products and packaging for circularity—ensuring they are reusable, recyclable, repairable, or compatible with existing recovery systems—can significantly reduce the burden placed in our communities.

For waste reclaimers such as the ones in Dandora and Korogocho, this would ultimately mean access to more recoverable materials and, consequently, greater and more consistent financial stability in an already challenging environment.
Richard Kainika Muchiri Antonio Martin Deporres Odera

Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers , together with the Danish Refugee Council, undertook a field visit to waste aggreg...
21/08/2026

Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers , together with the Danish Refugee Council, undertook a field visit to waste aggregation sites in Korogocho as part of a capacity-building session and to gain a first-hand understanding of the operations, challenges, and emerging developments within the local waste management and recycling sector.

Given the proximity of many of these sites to the Dandora dumpsite, they serve as important aggregation and recovery points for materials collected from the dumpsite and surrounding communities. They also provide a source of livelihood for thousands of people whose incomes and household welfare are directly or indirectly linked to waste collection, sorting, aggregation, and recycling.

At the same time, the visit demonstrated the significant pressures faced by communities operating in and around the dumpsite. The continued growth in waste volumes, coupled with challenges associated with problematic and low-value waste fractions, places considerable strain on local communities and waste enterprises. While there are ongoing efforts to explore conversion, recycling, and other innovative approaches to managing difficult waste streams, communities located closest to the dumpsite continue to bear a disproportionate share of the environmental and social burden.

The visit therefore presented a complex picture of the waste sector. On one hand, waste remains a significant environmental and public health challenge, particularly for communities living in close proximity to disposal sites. On the other hand, the same waste provides an essential economic lifeline for many families. Recycling and material recovery create employment, generate income, and support livelihoods that might otherwise be unavailable to these communities.

The experience in Korogocho reinforces the need for waste management interventions that address both sides of this reality. Efforts to improve waste recovery, introduce new technologies, promote the conversion of problematic waste fractions, and strengthen formal recycling systems should be accompanied by measures that protect and strengthen the livelihoods of communities already participating in the waste value chain. Korogocho illustrates the double-edged nature of waste: what may appear primarily as an environmental problem from one perspective can simultaneously represent a critical source of livelihood and opportunity for another.

Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers (KAWR) participated in a stakeholder workshop convened by the Nema Kenya to suppor...
19/08/2026

Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers (KAWR) participated in a stakeholder workshop convened by the Nema Kenya to support the development of a five-year communication strategy on waste segregation and behavioural change in Kenya. The initiative is aligned with the Sustainable Waste Management Act, 2022 and the Environmental Management and Co-ordination (Waste Management) Regulations, 2024, which establish the national waste segregation colour codes of Blue, Black and Green.

The workshop brought together stakeholders from government, civil society, NGOs, academia and the private sector to discuss how public awareness and household-level waste segregation can be strengthened. From KAWR’s perspective, the discussions highlighted the importance of developing a practical, evidence-based communication campaign that goes beyond awareness creation to connect household segregation with actual collection, recovery, recycling and end-market systems. Effective segregation at source must be supported by a functional waste recovery value chain so that the public can see the value and purpose of separating waste.

NEMA, represented by Mr. David Ongare, Director of Environmental Compliance, emphasised the need for solutions that reflect the Kenyan context and culture and called for stakeholders to contribute evidence and experiences to inform behaviour change. The workshop was supported through the Strategic Sector Cooperation (SSC), a Denmark–Kenya partnership supporting the country's circular economy transition, with the communication campaign being spearheaded by Burson Consultants

KAWR’s participation provided an opportunity to bring the perspectives of waste recovery and recycling actors into the process and to emphasise the need for a communication strategy that is practical, inclusive and linked to Kenya’s broader circular economy and waste recovery objectives.
Richard Kainika KEPRO Kenya Muchiri Antonio Pakpro KENYA EPROK KENYA Haprok Kenya

Join us to discuss Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers (KAWR’s) proposed National Waste Recovery Infrastructure Surve...
19/08/2026

Join us to discuss Kenya Association Of Waste Recyclers (KAWR’s) proposed National Waste Recovery Infrastructure Survey—mapping facilities, equipment and capacities across Kenya to identify gaps and opportunities for targeted interventions, EPR and policy advocacy.
📅 Friday, 21 August 2026
🕒 3:00 PM EAT
💻 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89568723172?pwd=8EwLqonp3fnWFpfPg0icE9QxrIdHob.1
Muhammad Iqbal Muchiri Antonio Greenco International Okoa youth Elvis Omondi Martin Deporres Odera Joseph Ongeri

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