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Sustainable Vision
Vortex Org

#LoveThePlanet

One connected ecosystem for waste, worth and what happens next.

A socio-technological waste intelligence software that turn everyday purchases and disposal decisions into actions that can be tracked, rewarded and reported on to promote a sustainable ecosystem.

Live programme figures

Counted over

48,250 kg
Kilograms of waste diverted

Logged, sorted and confirmed by a collector

3,500
Garments tracked

Followed from purchase through repair, resale or recovery

3,180
Active citizens

Logging waste at least once a month

Pending
Dustbins distributed

Colour-coded reusable bin and bag sets for households, schools and estates

16+ partnership proposals have been submitted and are awaiting partnership funding. Upon confirmation of funding, the Organisation will commission the production and distribution of 1,400+ partitioned, colour-segregated dustbin units within three months.

38
Partnerships procured

Institutions, NGOs, county bodies and fashion-sector partners under signed agreement

1,140
Volunteers joined

Took a place on a clean-up, school session or training day

12,600
Citizens educated

Reached through community training days, school sessions and campus campaigns

Figures are illustrative pilot targets, and the reporting window is set in the stakeholder dashboard. Once the platform is live, both the counters and the period they cover read directly from it.

Scan. Sort. Earn. Repeat.

Buy, verify, dispose, collect, report

The same record follows an item from the shop counter to the dashboard a government partner reads. That is the whole idea.

01

Scan it

A barcode scan returns the category, colour code and recyclability the producer registered.

02

Get reminded

The day before collection, a notification names the exact bags to prepare — by SMS if you have no smartphone.

03

Collector confirms

Volume and category are logged against your household, with proof. It works with no signal.

04

It becomes evidence

Every event streams to the dashboard and the public counters in near real time.

The shared vocabulary

Four colours, one system

The same four codes are used by the app, the reusable bags, the collector's workflow and the dashboard analytics — so nothing is lost in translation between them.

Green

Recyclables

Materials that can go back into manufacturing. Rinse them, keep them dry, and they hold their value.

Blue

Food & organic waste

Anything that rots. Kept separate it becomes compost; mixed in, it contaminates everything else in the bag.

Red

Hazardous waste

Items that harm people, soil or water if they reach an ordinary dump. These must go to a licensed handler.

Yellow

General dry waste

What is left once the other three are taken out. The goal here is to make this bag smaller every month.

Full sorting guide & posters

Every category is identified by an icon and a written label as well as a colour, so sorting works for colour-blind users and at low literacy levels.

Fashion Meets the Future

Clothing is not a side issue here

A dedicated textile module follows a garment from purchase through wear, repair, resale, upcycling or material recovery — and turns each of those steps into work for a tailor, an artisan or a recycler nearby.

  1. 1Scan before you buy — materials, sourcing, eco-impact
  2. 2Care reminders that keep a garment in use longer
  3. 3Repair or upcycle with a tailor or artisan near you
  4. 4Resell or swap it in the circular marketplace
  5. 5Fibre recovery when nothing else is left

Design principle

Built for the phone people actually own

Mobile-first, offline-tolerant and low-data by default. The platform must work on an entry-level Android handset on an intermittent connection, and degrade gracefully to SMS for users without smartphones — otherwise the communities the project most wants to reach are the ones it will exclude.

Works offline

Logs, pickups and check-ins queue locally and sync when a connection returns.

SMS & USSD

Feature-phone users get collection reminders and sorting guidance too.

Built to be multilingual

English today. Kiswahili follows across the app, the website and every notification template.

Icon-led sorting

Icons and labels carry the meaning, not colour alone — WCAG 2.1 AA throughout.

Start where you are

Whether that means downloading the app, registering a store, listing your repair services, or opening a partnership conversation — every route in is a short form and a phone number.