The VIPRO app: request a pickup from your phone
The app connects people in Kinshasa with the programme's collectors and follows every kilo through to payment. It is not published yet: the pilot will start in one commune.
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Progress on the ground, programme milestones and agreements, announced once they are signed.
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Green Attitude: three actions to make sorting a habit
VIPRO's campaign starts from the people of Kinshasa who already sort. It moves commune by commune, with the city's schools, markets and artists.
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Pre-collection: collectors paid by the kilo, right into the alleys
Drop-off points in every neighbourhood, tricycles and motorbikes to reach where trucks cannot, and a payment after every weighing.
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Operation O2: pavers, bricks and benches made from waste
What remains at the end of the chain will be able to come back into the city as building materials. Orders will also go to Kinshasa's makers.
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Kinshasa, 12,000 tonnes of waste a day
What the public figures say about the capital's waste, and who already deals with it.
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VIPRO presents its programme to clean up Kinshasa
The programme follows waste from the street to its second life. It starts in the capital, commune by commune.
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Green Attitude, the movement of Congolese people who sort.
Three habits for a cleaner district. Take the pledge and see how many neighbours already have.
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