Waste from the world’s largest Carnival event went digital for the first time with Kolekt

Two of the nine waste cooperatives that BVRio is helping to professionalise in Rio de Janeiro have started receiving support to digitise their waste flow through the Kolekt app.

The KOLEKT app has reached 10 thousand transactions and gained over 1000 users in 48 countries in the 18 months since its launch. Users are actors throughout the recycling supply chain, including informal waste pickers, who assisted in its design and testing.