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Instituto Muda
Brazil
Agriculture & Livelihoods
8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
10 - Reduced Inequalities
The challenge
São Paulo, the biggest city in Brazil, generates 20,000 tons of waste on a daily basis. Yet only 5% of the residential buildings have public recycling collection service, the majority of it goes to landfill.
The innovation
Instituto Muda picks up recycled waste from high-income condos in São Paulo and donates it to waste recycling cooperatives. They directly generate 85 jobs and provide employment to low-income families, formerly homeless and former drug addicts at the cooperatives.
The impact
100 tons of recyclable material is diverted from landfill on a monthly basis. The social business maintains 435 jobs with higher incomes.
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