World Bank estimates that 15 million of plastics are disposed into the Indian Ocean annually Contaminating with trillion pieces of plastic and making it the World’s second most polluted ocean after North Pacific.
Further statics indicate that Mombasa churns out about 2,200 metric tons of waste every day, a quarter which is plastic that contributes to climate change.
To reverse this trend a woman innovator in Mombasa County has come up with Baus Taka an app that helps communities along the Coast to manage plastics that will have otherwise ended in the ocean as they own the burden of waste management.
The Baus Taka app has currently 700 users and has features that enable them to request for waste management, sell plastics that have been collected, join initiatives of plastic cleaning at the beach and get trainings as well on plastic waste management.
She hopes that through this initiative will mitigate climate change that is occasioned by littering plastics that end into the ocean. The innovation has targeted women and girls who now earn a living through selling plastics and get health services that have partnered with the app upon redeeming their use points.
