Betty Kaddu

 BEST OF WASTE LTD

• From 2015 until today, it produced +750 tonnes of briquettes, thus providing clean energy access to the community;
• Team of 4 full-time employees;
• By providing the briquettes, it saved +66,000 trees that would have been cut down for charcoal;
• Cleaned the environment of 21,000 tonnes of organic waste which were recycled into briquettes;
• It operates in the recycling process in partnership with the community of waste-pickers at Kiteezi landfill;
• +600 livelihoods impacted both directly and indirectly in improved incomes as employees, distributors, retailers and waste pickers;
• Trains  women and girls in low-cost waste recycling best practices, marketing and sales of their products while giving them new sources of income to be economically empowered;
• In 2024 it received $6,000 investment from the 3rd Creek Foundation, to procure additional production equipment to build their inventory for larger clients such as schools and restaurants.