Coliba Ghana

What Coliba Ghana does

Coliba Ghana Ltd is a Ghanaian plastic waste recycling company founded in 2016 and headquartered at Dome Faase, Adjen Kotoku District in Accra. It operates an end-to-end circular-economy value chain spanning digital intake, last-mile collection, sorting and processing, and resale of recycled plastic commodities, serving households, institutions, businesses and informal waste pickers across Accra, Tema and Apam.

Its core technology is Coliba 2.0, described as the first African mobile app dedicated to plastic waste management, supported by a web application, SMS interface, and a cloud-based digital platform that maps waste pickers ('Coliba Rangers') to collection bins and buyback centers. Recovered plastic (PET, HDPE, LDPE) is processed through a locally built cold-wash processing line into sorted flakes, pellets and bales, sold to local manufacturers (for products including plastic fences and construction inputs) and exporters.

The business operates three revenue streams: (1) physical resale of recycled plastic commodities under a transaction-fee/buy-low-sell-high model; (2) B2B sustainability, compliance and quality audit services aligned with UNFCCC standards, including CO2 offset reporting; and (3) franchise/royalty income from the Coliba Rangers program. Pricing is quote-based for pickup and audit services and per-weight at community buyback centers; no public rate card exists. Distribution is via a self-serve digital channel (app/web/SMS), 10 named Buyback Centers and over 40 broader recycling hubs, 40 Total Petroleum service station drop-off points under the #IRecycle program with Voltic Ghana, and a franchise network dominated by women waste pickers (80% of contract employees). The company is privately held and founder-led by Prince Kwame Chisom Agbata; total disclosed external funding to date is $100,000 from Africa's Business Heroes (2022), and no revenue figure has been disclosed.

Name

Coliba Ghana

Legal name

Coliba Ghana Ltd

Website

https://coliba.com.gh

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Coliba Ghana Ltd is a Ghanaian plastic recycling startup operating the Coliba 2.0 digital platform across Accra and Tema, connecting households, businesses, and informal waste pickers to over 40 recycling hubs where recovered plastic is processed into flakes, pellets, and bales for resale.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Plastic Waste Recycling Services

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (56292), Solid Waste Collection (562111), Waste Collection (5621)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Miscellaneous Plastics Products (3080)

akta.pro primary industry

Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Recycling Processing (BPALADAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Post-Consumer Plastic Collection & Sorting (MRF/PRF, Bale Supply) (EUAIAKAA)

Keywords

• Plastic waste recycling
• Waste management services
• Recycled plastic products
• Mobile recycling platform
• Sustainability compliance services

Headquarters

HQ city

Abeka

HQ country

Ghana

HQ region

Africa

Offices11 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Recycled Plastic Resale (Flakes, Pellets, PET Bales): Coliba purchases plastic waste (PET, PP, HDPE, LD) via buyback centers, then processes it into Cold Washed HDPE/LDPE/PET Flakes, PET Bales (Blue, Clear, Green, Brown), and pellets. These are sold to local plastic manufacturers (e.g., for fences, construction) and exported — i.e., buy low / process / sell higher margin physical goods.
2. Sustainability, Compliance & Quality Audit Services: Recurring B2B service line: compliance evaluation, environmental impact analysis and CO2 offset measurement aligned with UNFCC standards, offered to businesses and organizations that want to meet local/international standards for waste collection and recycling.
3. Coliba Rangers Franchise Program: Franchise model that licenses entrepreneurs to run Coliba services in communities/cities without existing recycling services; generates franchise/royalty-like income while expanding collection coverage.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Coliba Ghana runs a tech-enabled plastic waste recycling operation built on the Coliba 2.0 mobile/web/SMS platform, which lets households, institutions and communities request on-demand plastic pickups. The company collects, sorts and cold-washes HDPE, LDPE and PET plastic at its Accra processing facility, selling the resulting flakes, pellets and color-sorted bales to local manufacturers and exporters, while also providing UNFCCC-aligned quality audit and CO2 offset reporting services to businesses.

Product overview

Coliba Ghana offers a unified digital recycling platform built around its core product, the Coliba 2.0 mobile/web/SMS application, which serves as the customer-facing interface for requesting plastic waste pickup and starting recycling programs. Supporting this platform are a set of operational service modules — Plastic Waste Collection, Recycling Services, GreenTech Solution (cloud-based digital services), Recycling Hubs & Transport, Sorting & Processing, Recycled Products (Cold Washed HDPE Flakes, PET Bales, Cold Washed LDPE, Cold Washed PET Flakes, and Aluminum Beverage Cans), Compliance (UNFCCC-aligned audits), Quality Audits, and Sustainability (including the Coliba Rangers Program for women waste pickers). Together the platform and its service modules form an end-to-end circular-economy recycling value chain operating across Accra and Tema, Ghana.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Coliba 2.0: The company's branded mobile application, described as the first African mobile app designed to manage plastic waste across West Africa; brings recycling services to users' fingertips and enables request of waste pickup.

Products and services

• Coliba 2.0 Mobile/Web/SMS Recycling Platform First African mobile app for plastic waste management, available via web, mobile and SMS; enables households, institutions and communities to start recycling programs and request plastic waste pickups digitally, and integrates Coliba Rangers waste pickers into the platform.
• Plastic Waste Collection Service On-demand and scheduled plastic waste collection service for households, institutions and businesses, requested digitally through the Coliba 2.0 app, with logistics for plastic recovery set up via the digital platform.
• Plastic, Paper and Beverage Can Recycling Service Recovery, collection and recycling of plastic waste, paper and beverage cans into new products, requestable through the Coliba app for businesses, corporations and households.
• Recycling Hubs and Transport Network Physical network of over 40 recycling centers and hubs across Accra enabling citizens to recycle waste, with users able to find the closest collection point and request pickup via Coliba 2.0.
• Sorting and Processing Service Industrial sorting and processing of recovered plastic waste into flakes and pellets using locally built machines and a cold-wash line system, producing reusable feedstock at lower cost and energy.
• UNFCCC-aligned Quality Audit and Compliance Service Internal and external audit of collection and recycling operations with environmental impact and CO2 offset measurement aligned to UNFCCC (UNFCC) standards, offered to businesses and organizations needing local and international waste and recycling compliance.
• Cold Washed HDPE Flakes HDPE flakes produced from ethically recovered HDPE (including landfill and ocean-bound plastic) sourced through Coliba's social plastic project, hand-sorted and processed using locally built industrial machines into cold-dried flakes.
• PET Bales Color-sorted PET bales (blue, clear, green, brown) produced from recovered ocean- and river-bound plastics and clean post-industrial waste, free of PVC and pollution, sold to plastic manufacturers.
• Cold Washed LDPE Cold-washed LDPE materials of different colors, including LDPE water pouches, recovered and processed through Coliba's washing line system.
• Cold Washed PET Flakes Clean cold-washed PET flakes color-sorted into Blue & Clear, Blue Only, Clear Only, Brown Only and Green Only variants for sale to plastic manufacturers and exporters.
• Aluminum Beverage Cans Aluminum beverage cans recovered and aggregated through Coliba's network of waste pickers and community deposit centers across Ghana, sold into recycling supply chains.
• Coliba Rangers Franchise Program Franchise program that licenses entrepreneurs—predominantly women informal waste pickers—to operate Coliba collection and buyback services in communities and cities without existing recycling infrastructure.

Quantifiable outcome

• 700 tons of plastics recycled
• +3 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered community / event-level and flagship / anchor partnership.

• University of Ghana (Legon)community / event-levelGTM or Marketing Partner · 5 June 2019University of Ghana (Legon) co-participated in the 5 June 2019 World Environment Day plastic clean-up at Dansoman-Glefe with about forty volunteers from Voltic Mineral Water and the University, supporting Coliba's stationed pick-up and community awareness activities.
• Voltic Ghana Limitedflagship / anchor partnershipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 November 2018Co-launch partner of the #IRecycle plastic collection project (alongside Total Petroleum Ghana). Voltic, a Coca-Cola bottling partner, contributes its waste segregation and disposal program (running since 2015) and operates the bins. Voltic's MD Francois Gazania publicly stated pride in the partnership with Total and Coliba Ghana. The project targets 40 collection locations (mainly Total service stations) across Accra and Tema.
• Total Petroleum Ghana Limitedflagship / anchor partnershipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 November 2018Co-launch partner of the #IRecycle plastic collection project. Total provides ~40 service stations across Accra and Tema (Atomic Energy, ACP, East Legon, Liberation, Oxford Street, Tema Hospital road, Ashaiman Motorway 1, Tema Main Harbour, Tema Community 1, Motorway 1, 37 Total Station, Liberation Road, La Paz, Liberia Road, Achimota) as drop-off points and fuels the tricycles that gather the plastics for recycling. Total's MD Eric Fanchini framed it as Total investing sustainably back into the community.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• RecyclePoints: Nigeria-based incentive-based recycling platform that uses an app to convert household and institutional waste into redeemable points. Comparable digital-rewards model and focus on household and institutional collection in a West African market.
• Wecyclers: Nigeria-based plastic and household waste collection platform using SMS and mobile apps to incentivize household recycling via a points-based reward system. Most direct comparable to Coliba in mission (informal-waste-picker formalization, app-led collection) and West African operating environment.
• Plastic Bank: Global social enterprise operating in several West African and Asian countries that pays collectors for plastic and processes it into Social Plastic feedstock for brands. Comparable in mission, plastic-credit monetization, and inclusion of informal waste pickers in the digital value chain.
• Mr. Green Africa: Kenya-based plastic recycling company that buys post-consumer plastic, processes it into recycled pellets, and sells to FMCG manufacturers. Direct comparable on the value-chain model (buy low / process / sell to manufacturers) and the African emerging-market recycling thesis.
• Ecobarter: Nigeria-based recycling platform that rewards households for sorted waste via a mobile app and connects them to recycling partners. Direct comparable on the digital, app-led household collection model targeting African urban markets.
• Chanja Datti: Nigeria-based plastic recycling social enterprise that buys post-consumer plastic waste, processes it into flakes, and sells to manufacturers. Closely comparable buy-process-sell model with social-inclusion angle for informal waste collectors.

Broad incumbents

• TOMRA: Norwegian global leader in collection and sorting solutions for plastics and other recyclables. Broad incumbent in the recycling value chain — relevant as a potential technology/sorting partner or competitive threat if it expands its recycling-services footprint into West Africa.
• Waste Management, Inc. Largest North American waste and environmental services company with growing international recycling operations. Broad incumbent whose circular-economy initiatives and recycling technology could be a partnership or competitive force in African markets.
• Veolia: Global environmental services and waste-management major with growing African operations in municipal and industrial waste. Broad incumbent whose entry into Ghana's plastic recovery market would represent significant competitive and partnership potential for Coliba.

Regional players

• Recycla Ghana: Ghana-based recycling company operating buyback and collection infrastructure in the same domestic market as Coliba. Comparable recycling services in Accra and represents direct local competition for household and institutional plastic recovery.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/colibagh
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/coliba-recycling-services

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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