‘I STR ONGLY
BELIEVE IN
A WASTE-FREE
AND GREENER
WORLD.
JOIN US.
TAKE ACTION.
DO IT FOR YOUR
OFFSPRING.’On a school assignment
in Rwanda, Irakoze, 20,
came upon an overflow-
ing landfill in his home-
town. He learned that
discarded electronics
create more than 50
million tons of waste
globally each year. Now
a university student,
he founded Wastezon,
which uses a mobile
phone app to connect
consumers with recy-
cling industries. The
company has helped
send 460 tons of elec-
tronics to recyclers in
Kigali, Rwanda’s capital.
TOM JAMIESONGHISLAIN
IRAKOZE
FIGHTING FOR THEIR FUTURE 75