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About VIPRO

A Congolese company for clean cities.

VIPRO is a Congolese company registered in the DRC. Its goal: clean cities, where waste becomes energy, materials and paid work. To get there, it is building the whole chain: collect, sort, transform, and change habits along the way.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kinshasa · DRC

First mission: Kinshasa

24 districts, then the whole DRC, then Africa.

Our mission

Clean up the city, from the street to new materials.

  1. Collect and sort

    Drop-off points near homes, collectors paid by the kilo. Each material then goes to its own channel.

  2. Transform

    Plastic, metal and glass go to recyclers. The rest becomes fuel, then energy and materials.

  3. Change habits

    Green Attitude starts from the residents who already sort, district by district, with schools and markets.

The founder

Jordi Voluzolo

A Congolese entrepreneur, Jordi Voluzolo founded VIPRO to give waste treatment a strong identity, first in the DRC, then in other African countries.

How we work

With the people already doing the work.

VIPRO works with the people who already collect: independent collectors, associations, small businesses, recyclers. The programme plans equipment, buyers for their materials and regular payment by the kilo.

  • Start from the ground

    Independent collectors, associations, small businesses, recyclers: the programme builds on them.

  • Equip and open markets

    The programme plans equipment and buyers for each material.

  • Pay regularly, by the kilo

    Every collector is paid by weight, after the weigh-in.

First mission

Kinshasa first. Then the DRC. Then Africa.

VIPRO is a Congolese company. The programme starts in the capital, one district at a time, with the people already doing the work: collectors, neighbourhood associations, recyclers. Once it runs in Kinshasa, it can be repeated elsewhere.

Kinshasa's districts

24

districts targeted, one at a time.

  • The 24 districts
  • Surroundings
  • Gombe, the capital's centre

District boundaries: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via geoBoundaries.

BandalungwaBarumbuBumbuGombeKalamuKasa-VubuKimbansekeKinshasaKintamboKisensoLembaLimeteLingwalaMakalaMalukuMasinaMateteMont-NgafulaNdjiliNgabaNgaliemaNgiri-NgiriNseleSelembao

The context

VIPRO works alongside public efforts.

  • REGEDEK

    Kinshasa's waste management agency, created in March 2025. It organises household pre-collection.

  • RASKIN

    It moves waste on to treatment.

  • Kin la Belle

    Programme funded by the World Bank, approved on 28 April 2026.

Sources: Bankable, 31 August 2026; World Bank, 28 April 2026

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