About TrashIQ
TrashIQ is a digital platform built to transform how waste is collected, traded, and recycled. We believe waste is not just refuse - it’s a resource that can create livelihoods, restore dignity to collectors, empower communities, and fuel a truly circular economy.
What TrashIQ makes possible
The Challenge
Across Africa and beyond, waste collection is often informal, untracked, and undervalued. Collectors and CBOs face low pay, unsafe conditions and limited recognition, while processors and manufacturers struggle with traceability and a consistent recyclable supply. The result? Overflowing dumpsites, polluted neighborhoods, and missed economic opportunity.
Why it matters
- • Most municipal waste is recyclable - only a fraction is actually recovered.
- • Informal collectors drive recovery but remain invisible in data and payments.
- • Municipal budgets stretch thin without reliable information and tools.
TrashIQ helps convert this gap into jobs, cleaner streets and measurable impact.
Our Approach
TrashIQ digitizes the entire value chain - from door-to-door collection logs and automated customer notifications, to reverse-logistics tracking across aggregators, processors and manufacturers. With real-time dashboards, automated invoicing, MPesa payments and compliance-ready reporting, everyone in the ecosystem gains visibility and value.
Our Solution
More than a tool, TrashIQ is a movement. By connecting collectors, CBOs, municipalities, NGOs and industry, we enable better data, fairer payments and sustainable growth. Small actors scale with confidence; large players meet sustainability and ESG goals with trustworthy evidence.
Impact we’re driving
With every collection logged on TrashIQ, we reduce landfill waste, increase recycling, create traceable income for collectors and empower communities to build cleaner, greener cities.
Collectors & CBOs
Tap-to-log pickups with photo & GPS. Instant receipts via WhatsApp/SMS. Fair payouts with fewer disputes.
Aggregators & Recyclers
Batch & bale tracking, quality records and chain-of-custody to guarantee supply for buyers.
Manufacturers & Municipalities
Reliable inputs, compliance-ready exports, and citywide visibility to plan, fund and prove impact.
Our Vision
We see a world where waste management is not a burden but an opportunity - where every bottle, bag and bale adds measurable value to people’s lives and the planet’s health. TrashIQ is committed to partnerships with local governments, NGOs and enterprises to scale this vision and ensure no community is left behind in the circular revolution.