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From Waste to Worth
- From Waste to Worth
Inside a tailor's workshop, one sack at a time
Every tailoring bench makes a second product that nobody orders: offcuts. The strip trimmed from a hem, the curve cut away from a collar, the end of a kitenge length too short to s…
4 October 2026 · 1 min read · Sustainable Vision Vortex
- From Waste to Worth
The collector who kept a ledger
Before the app, Joseph wrote every pickup in a school exercise book. Nobody ever asked to see it — until a bank did.
14 July 2026 · 4 min read · Communications team
- Campaign update
What the first thousand scans told us
Sorting accuracy started at 54%. The fix was not more rules — it was explaining why each rule exists.
28 June 2026 · 5 min read · Data & impact team
- School recap
Olympic Primary runs its own waste audit
Two classes weighed a week of school waste. The results changed what the canteen buys.
11 June 2026 · 3 min read · Community & field team
- Policy news
Extended producer responsibility: what producers actually owe
Registering a barcode is a small administrative act with an outsized effect on what a household can do.
30 May 2026 · 6 min read · Partnerships team
- Fashion Meets the Future
Three pairs of jeans, one bag
Inside Kibra Upcycle Studio, where the margin is in the labour, not the material.
16 May 2026 · 4 min read · Fashion & circularity advisor
- Campaign update
SMS is not a fallback, it is the front door
Designing for the handset people actually own, rather than the one we wish they had.
25 April 2026 · 4 min read · Product team
