About
We're building the boring layer.
Green Africa builds the plumbing that everything above it has to be able to rely on.
01 — Why we exist
Unprovable work doesn't attract capital.
Plastic recovery in Nigeria has never suffered from a shortage of effort. What that effort lacks is any way to prove it happened.
A brand can't fund what it can't report, and a credit market can't price what it can't verify. Funders hit the same wall from the other side, with nothing to audit. Meanwhile the collector at the bottom of the chain, who is doing the actual environmental work, captures the smallest share of the value, because they hold the material and not the evidence.
We decided to build the evidence.
02 — What we chose not to build
A deliberately narrow business.
We are not trying to become Nigeria's largest aggregator, and we have no plans to build pelletising capacity or import machines.
Each of those is a capital-heavy business, and in each case somebody is already better at it than we are. What we do instead is narrow and asset-light: verify the material where it is recovered, and make sure the value of that proof reaches the people who earned it.
03 — Recognition
First place overall, 2025 Hedera Africa Hackathon.
Green Africa won first place overall and the cross-track championship at the 2025 Hedera Africa Hackathon, competing against more than 1,300 submissions from over 13,000 developers. That prize is funding the deployment now in progress.
It is a real cheque and useful validation. What makes it a business is the machines going into the ground.
04 — Where we are
Based in Ibadan, working across Lagos and Oyo.
Founded and operating in Nigeria, with offices in Ibadan and operations across Lagos and Oyo States. The hardware is fabricated here, and the team that builds and services it lives here.
Write to us
Come and see one.
The best version of this conversation happens standing in front of a machine. If you're in Lagos or Ibadan, we'll show you.
We reply within two working days.