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LAKAY RECYCLAGE - FROM STREET TO SCHOOL

Turning Plastic Waste into a Brighter Future for Haiti.

Lakay Recyclage is dedicated to cleaning up the streets of Haiti by recycling plastic waste and transforming it into useful products. Your support can help us make a difference.

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Welcome to Lakay Recyclage!

Lakay Recyclage: Recycling Plastic, Building Hope.

We're a dedicated initiative transforming plastic waste in Haiti into valuable new products. Our goal is to not only protect the environment but also empower the local community by creating sustainable jobs and establishing a circular economy for resources. Become a part of our mission to turn plastic waste into a source of hope and progress!

Our Mission: From Waste to Value

Every year, our communities and oceans are choked by plastic waste. At Lakay Recyclage, we see an opportunity in this challenge. We collect plastic waste and use innovative methods to process it into useful products. This way, we reduce environmental pollution while creating sustainable income opportunities for local people.

The problem of waste management in Haiti

Recycling Plastic

The Alarming Reality of Plastic Waste: Why Your Action Matters

The plastic crisis is one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. While plastic offers convenience, its lifecycle, especially when not properly managed, is devastating to our planet and communities.

- Only 9% of plastic waste globally is recycled. This stark figure means that a staggering 91% of plastic ends up in landfills, incinerated, or polluting our environment. This highlights a massive missed opportunity and the urgent need for more effective recycling solutions like Lakay Recyclage.

- The world produces over 400 million tonnes of plastic waste annually. Many million tonnes on land and  into rivers and coastlines, eventually making their way to our oceans.This staggering amount continues to grow, putting immense pressure on our ecosystems.

- By 2050, it's predicted there could be more plastic than fish in the ocean by weight if current trends continue. This is a terrifying future that we must work together to prevent.

- Plastic pollution directly impacts millions of livelihoods by affecting food production capabilities and social well-being, especially in coastal communities.

- More than 100,000 marine mammals are killed by ocean plastic waste entanglement or ingestion each year. This heartbreaking statistic underscores the direct threat to biodiversity.

THIS RECYCLING PLANT IS FOR

YOU
YOUR FAMILY
HAITI
EVERYONE!

How you can help?

To bring our project to life and ensure its long-term success, we need your support. Your donation is crucial for:

  1. Machinery and Equipment: Acquiring state-of-the-art technology for the efficient processing of plastic waste.
  2. First-Year Employee Salaries: Funding the salaries of our dedicated employees for the project's first year of operation.

With your help, we can build the necessary infrastructure and ensure our team is fairly compensated from the start. Every contribution counts and brings us closer to our goal!

The Recycling Process

1. Collection

Plastic waste is gathered from streets, communities, and collection points.

2. Sorting & Cleaning

Collected plastic is sorted by type and thoroughly cleaned to remove impurities. This process will use Manpower and so creating work for the comunities.

3. Processing & Transformation 

 The cleaned plastic is then shredded or melted down, ready for transformation. Processed plastic is molded or otherwiese used to create new, useful products. This process not only removes harmful plastic from our environment but also creates opportunities for a more sustainable future for the communities and the hole country. Read more

A Sustainable Future for Haiti

Our project goes beyond mere recycling. We're creating a sustainable value chain that stimulates the local economy and promotes environmental awareness and education. 

By transforming plastic waste into resources, we're laying the groundwork for a cleaner, healthier, and more prosperous future in Haiti.

Become a Supporter!

Your donation is an investment in environmental protection, social justice, and economic development. Help us turn plastic waste in Haiti into a success story.

Lakay means "home" in Haitian Creole, and for us, it represents our commitment to make Haiti a cleaner and healthier place to live. We are establishing a recycling plant to collect plastic waste, process it efficiently, and create valuable items that benefit the community. 

Our primary goal is to reduce the amount of plastic pollution on the streets, which harms the environment and public health.

This initiative is strongly rooted in the ideology of the late Father Fritz Lafontant, his Wife Yolande Lafontant, the american artist Jackie Williams and Doctor Paul Farmer who were able to motivate the young people of the central plateau to become honest and useful citizens for their environment. 

In this same initiative, the staff of “Lakay recyclage - From Street To School” wants to honor four characters by dedicating to them “the Lafontant Prize”, “The Manmito Prize”,  "The Jackie Prize”, and “The Paul Farmer Prize” in order to remain unforgotten in our minds and thoughts. Read more

9 percent of plastic waste is recycled

Did you know that only 9 percent of plasticwaste is recycled? About 400 million tons of plastic waste are produced every year. Products made from single-use plastic in particular represent a major challenge for the environment, as their production and disposal pollutes nature and endangers numerous animal species. As awareness of how our actions impact the planet grows, so does the demand for biodegradable disposable products.

Summer, sun, beach and sea – this is how many people imagine the ideal holiday, on a lonely island surrounded by beautiful natural splendor. What is there to complain about? But where there is light, there is also shadow, which you usually don't see in holiday photos or in the media.

Household waste is still one of the biggest challenges for environmental protection. There is a sustainable solution: Production in the so-called circular economy uses recycling to save resources and reduce waste.

Lets change with Lakay Recyclage.

 

Impact on Ecosystems — In Haiti and Globally

1. Global Ocean Health

  • Haiti is part of the Caribbean Sea basin — a highly interconnected marine ecosystem.
  • Plastics from Haiti often end up in international waters, contributing to the Great Atlantic Garbage Patch.

2. Carbon Footprint & Climate Change

  • Plastics are made from fossil fuels. Improper disposal (e.g., burning) adds to greenhouse gas emissions, worsening climate change.
  • Climate change and plastic pollution compound each other, especially in small island nations.

3. Ecosystem Services Decline

  • Coral reefs, mangroves, and wetlands are natural barriers against storms and floods. Plastic pollution damages these, reducing natural climate resilience.
  • Loss of biodiversity affects food chains, fisheries, and overall ecosystem balance.

 

Other facts

Globally, the use of plastics has increased from approximately 5 million tons in the 1950s to more than 330 million tons in 2020. According to figures from the World Bank, plastics make up around 5-12 percent of global waste (20-30 percent by weight). The use of plastics has increased at an alarming rate, even though it took hundreds or even thousands of years before they decomposed and they posed a significant environmental impact.

Microplastics are all around us and have become a serious environmental problem in recent years. This insidious pollutant is in the air, food and even drinking water without us realizing it. The threat of microplastics is so alarming that the European Commission recently adopted a series of comprehensive measures to combat microplastic pollution. The new ban affects numerous products including cosmetics, cleaning products, glitter, toys, medicines and much more.

But why we are doing this?

  • We want to restore the natural beauty and biodiversity in Haiti.
  • We want to protect communities from disease and disaster.
  • We want to boost Haiti's economy through tourism and sustainable industries.
  • We want to set an example of global responsibility in addressing one of the planet’s most pressing environmental challenges.

Do you want to help us with a small Donation: Also small animals make manure ;). Please do it here or directly with paypal: fritznel.roemer@lakay-recyclage.org

Thank you!

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