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GreenlineRecycling, Abeokuta
My pickup day

About

A sorting yard on Quarry Road and eight green trucks

Greenline began in 2018 with one tipper and a promise to an estate in Oke-Ilewo: same days every week. Today we serve sixteen estates and areas, two markets and over two hundred businesses.

The Greenline office team in a meeting

Story

From one tipper to a yard

  1. 2018

    Adewale and Bisi Ogunleye (example founders) start with a borrowed tipper and forty homes in Palmgrove Court.

  2. 2019

    Second truck. Ibara Housing Estate and Asero join. The office opens on Ibara Road.

  3. 2021

    The yard on Quarry Road opens with a baler and a scale. Buyback begins.

  4. 2023

    Business collection and skips for Panseke traders line. Forty staff.

  5. 2026

    Eight trucks, sixteen routes, sixty-one staff and online sign-up. Example history for this demo.

The yard

Where your amber bag goes

Every afternoon the trucks tip recyclables onto the sorting floor. A team of twelve sorts by hand into PET, sachet film, HDPE, cans, card, paper and glass. Bales leave by lorry to buyers in Ota and Lagos twice a week.

Food waste goes to windrows at the back of the yard and becomes compost in about ten weeks. We sell it to farms on the Ilaro road and give it free to school gardens.

The yard runs on grid power with a solar array for the office and scale, and a diesel generator for the baler when the grid fails.

12sorters on the floor
7material streams
10weeks from peel to compost
2lorries of bales a week

Gallery

A day at Greenline

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Sacks of sorted material stacked inside the yard shed
Bottles and cans waiting on the sorting floor
Green glass bottles sorted by colour
A pile of scrap metal ready for the dealer
Finished compost held in two hands
A school garden being planted with compost
Volunteers on a clean-up day
A heap of plastic bottles before baling

People

Who you will meet

Example team for this demo.

Portrait of a smiling man outdoors

Adewale O.

Co-founder, routes and trucks. Knows every pothole between Kuto and Lafenwa.

Portrait of a smiling young woman outdoors

Bisi O.

Co-founder, customers and the yard. Started the buyback scheme.

Office colleagues around a table

The office

Five people on phones and WhatsApp from 7am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday.

Beliefs

What we believe

  1. Refuse is a public health matter. Burning and dumping make children sick. Fixed days are the simplest cure we know of for a street.
  2. Crews deserve respect. Fair pay, protective kit, health cover with an HMO and a hot lunch at the yard.
  3. Recycling has to pay. If it does not pay the sorter and the household, it will not last.
  4. Abeokuta first. We hire locally and buy locally where we can.

See it for yourself

Yard visits for schools and residents groups on Saturday mornings. Book on WhatsApp.

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