EcoCirculate is an informative and entertaining outreach program that engages and activates communities, particularly nano, and micro-businesses, as key beneficiaries in the state’s drive towards a circular economy. This initiative positions circular practices as an incentivized social subsidy strategy, rewarding residents who adopt climate-friendly behaviors in their daily lives.

The program will feature a vibrant waste-to-value bazaar offering health insurance enrolment opportunities, free transportation vouchers, food items, and more. An engaging educational series, a talent hunt, and other exciting activities will also be available for all participants.

ECOcirculate Objectives

• Accessing insights from understanding and consolidating successful CE practices at all levels of commerce.
• Identifying challenges and barriers faced by existing CE actors to provide incentives, enablement, and solutions guided by a bottom-up feedback loop.
• Informing policy and tools for building out the potential of the novel green market in Lagos State.
• Facilitating and mobilizing the green economy on a data-guided spine of waste valorization at all levels of commerce.

ECOcirculate Key Activities

1. Commercial Bazaar: A waste-to-value event showcasing and seeding various reward models:
   • Waste-to-tuition
   • Waste-to-health insurance
   • Waste-to-airtime/data
   • Waste-to-free public transport
   • Waste-to-foodstuff
   • Waste-to-clean cooking energy vouchers
2. Green Advocacy and Sustainable Change Management Mechanisms: Building solid communication plans to increase awareness, community/business participation, and bottom-up data feedback systems for gaining insight and governance/business intelligence for CE in Lagos.
3. Community-Business Linkages: Building partnerships for sustainable offtake and monetization/valorization of waste, ensuring post-event continuity and leveraging private sector CSR.

Safe Waste Evacuation and Improving Source Segregation: Supported by LAWMA and proposed off-takers across all waste classes.

Expected Outcomes

1. The expected outcomes of ECOcirculate include:
2. Increased awareness and adoption of CE practices in Lagos.
3. A robust data set for designing an inclusive green economic model.
4. A network of empowered CE actors at the community level.
5. A sovereign network of funds aimed at improving sustainability outcomes in Lagos State communities.
6. Transferable learnings, policy guidance, and tools for harnessing a novel green market.

The Badagry Adventure in Numbers

1. 1,000 Direct Beneficiaries
2. 2 tons of Textile Waste Collected
3. 200 Kg of Plastic Waste
4. 200kg of E-Waste
5. Up to 5,000,000 NGN worth of incentives, including food, cash, data, and airtime

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