From trash to treasure: using Kenya’s waste crisis to generate livelihoods for youth
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Kenya faces severe climate change challenges, but young entrepreneurs and community leaders are pioneering green initiatives to combat deforestation, water scarcity, and plastic pollution. In 2022, Anita Owiti, a Young African Research Fellow at the HSRC, interviewed young people in Kibera and Dandora, low-income neighborhoods of Nairobi, Kenya, to explore how local entrepreneurs were turning environmental crises into sustainable business opportunities. This article by Lindiwe Malumbazo is based on episode 4 of a podcast series called Hustling the African Dream, which explores how young Kenyans create livelihoods from waste products.
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DOI: 10.14749/28649477
Author: Human Sciences Research Council
Language: English
Subfield: Waste Management and Disposal
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Human Sciences Research Council
OpenAlex ID: W6905021148
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