Trash4Cash
Women's groups collect and sort plastic waste, selling to certified recyclers. Turning ocean pollution into household income and clean coastlines. 120 women, 2+ tonnes of plastic monthly.
Eight million tonnes of plastic enter the world's oceans every year. On the Kilifi coast, the women of the Trash4Cash programme are fighting back - and getting paid for it.
Trash4Cash brings together women's groups from coastal communities to collect, sort, and sell plastic waste to certified recyclers. What would otherwise end up in the ocean becomes household income. More than 80 women now participate across four communities, collecting over two tonnes of plastic waste every month.
The programme is part of the LIFT Network - Oceans Alive's broader women's economic empowerment and conservation leadership platform. By placing income generation and environmental protection in the same hands, Trash4Cash makes conservation something women do for their own futures, not something done to their environment.
Programme
Trash4Cash
Livelihoods · Programme 07
Sorting, weighing and preparing plastic for sale to certified recyclers
Clean beaches. Economic independence. Conservation leadership.
“We are not just cleaning the beach. We are building our future.”
- Trash4Cash participant, Kilifi
Connected Work
Related Programmes
LIFT Network
Women's livelihoods, financial independence and eco-entrepreneurship. Building resilient coastal communities from the ground up through women's economic agency and conservation leadership.
Kitchen Gardens & Food Security
Climate-smart gardens for coastal fishing families. Reducing dependence on overexploited fish stocks while strengthening household nutrition and resilience across Kilifi County.
Community Health & Wellbeing
Holistic programmes that link ocean health directly to community health - because the wellbeing of Kilifi's people and the health of its waters are inseparable.
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