About Us
We're the people who didn't want to keep guessing when the truck would come
KaziCollect started as a frustration with how disconnected waste collection was in Kampala — no schedule, no visibility, no way to know if anything was actually being recycled. This is who’s building the fix, and how we got here.
A note from the team
"We didn't set out to build an app. We set out to answer one question: who actually picks this up, and where does it go?"
Founding team, KaziCollect
Before the platform existed, most of us had tried some version of the same workaround — a phone number scribbled on a wall, a collector you hoped would show up, a bag of plastic that probably ended up wherever the rest of it went. There wasn’t a way to know.
KaziCollect is our attempt to make that whole chain visible and accountable — for the household booking a pickup, the collector earning from it, and the plant that finally does something useful with the material.
Show the whole chain
Every pickup should be traceable from the doorstep to wherever the material ends up — no black box in between..
Collectors get paid fairly
Pricing and payouts are set so collectors earn a living wage per pickup, not whatever's left after everyone else takes a cut.
Build for the neighborhood, not the demo
We test in real zones with real collectors before rolling anything out, rather than optimizing for what looks good in a pitch.
Reliability over speed
A pickup that shows up on time beats a flashy feature every time. We'd rather be boring and dependable.
Earn trust zone by zone
We don't launch everywhere at once. Each new area gets collectors who know it before we open bookings there.
Data belongs to the people it's about
Generators and collectors can see their own history and reports at any time — nothing is locked behind a dashboard only we can read.
Our Path
How a side project became a
marketplace
Inclusion
Bringing informal collectors into the network
Many collectors were already doing this work without any formal recognition. We run a short onboarding track that gets independent waste pickers verified, insured, and earning through the platform instead of outside it.
Education
A sorting curriculum for local schools
A short in-class program that teaches students how waste is actually sorted and where it goes, built around the same categories collectors use on the app, so the concept isn’t abstract.
Cleanup
Monthly neighborhood cleanup days
One Saturday a month, collectors and generators in a zone team up for a free community cleanup — no booking, no fee. It’s usually how we meet the next zone we expand into.
Beyond The App
What we work on outside of pickups
The marketplace only works if there’s a healthy chain around it — so some of
what we do doesn’t happen inside the app at all.
Recycling
Plastics & Packaging Plants
Take pre-sorted plastic waste directly from scheduled and on-demand pickups.
Recovery
E-Waste Processors
Handle electronics collected through households and business accounts.
Civic
Local Municipal Bodies
Share zone-level data to help plan public collection points and routes.
Finance
Mobile Money Partners
Power in-app payments and collector payouts across every plan.
Who We Work With
Material only matters if someone
can use it
The marketplace only works if there’s a healthy chain around it — so some of
what we do doesn’t happen inside the app at all.