Nigeria’s Chioma Ukonu of comes in Second Place at the 2017 #ChivasVenture” @bellanaijaonline.
A company will be poised to consistently seize opportunities when it has visionary leadership, an outstanding business model, has structures in place, and an outstanding team.
@Recyclepoints is one such company, and we are delighted to see that social entrepreneur @chiomsyukonu, Founder of @recyclepoints was runner up at the @ChivasVenture global Final in Los Angeles yesterday and awarded $200,000.
Recyclepoints was one of 750 beneficiaries of the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund's @LSETF in 2016.
She was also selected out of over 20,000 African entrepreneurs for the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme in 2015.
"RecyclePoints operates an incentive-based scheme which collects recyclable waste materials from consumers and rewards them with 'points' that they accumulate and use to redeem household items, through the startup's iRecycle store.”
"RecyclePoints also employs ‘Wastebusters’ to collect door-to-door recyclable waste processed at a Collection & Sorting Hub by disadvantaged women, and sold on to recycling plants.
Congratulations to the Recycle Points team for their sustained excellence and for cleaning up our environment.
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