Lagos-based entrepreneur and innovator, Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola has won this year’s Sustainia Award. The award selected by the Sustainia Award Committee, was chaired by former California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It was presented at a ceremony held at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The finalists were from seven different countries, providing solutions covering new ways of making the cities, food, fashion, air conditioners, smart phones and energy consumption more sustainable.
Sustainia Award is an annual international award given to a solution, technology or project with a significant potential to help build a more sustainable future.
Adebiyi-Abiola is Co-Founder, WeCyclers, a Lagos-based company that focuses on giving low-income communities a chance to capture value from waste and clean up their neighborhoods through an incentive-based recycling programme.
Wecyclers won this year ‘s Sustainia Award for offering a solution that enables low-income communities to make money from waste piling up in their streets.
By deploying a fleet of cargo bicycles to collect and recycle un-managed waste, Wecyclers allows families to exchange garbage for consumer goods via an SMS-based point system.