MLIMALOOP
MlimaLoop Ltd · Arusha, Tanzania · Est. 2026

From the mountain to the world and back.

Sixteen billion bottles a year. Three per cent come back. MlimaLoop is the infrastructure that closes the gap, and the people paid, by name, to close it.

Follow the bottle The ask
The gap

A continent drowning in its own plastic.

East Africa generates millions of tonnes of plastic waste a year and almost none of it comes back. It chokes waterways, cities and soil, while the world's brands are paying a premium for exactly this material, certified and traceable.

0B
plastic bottles discarded across Africa every year
0%
currently recycled in East Africa
0–12t
collectable PET generated in Arusha, every day
0k t
plastic already stockpiled at Arusha's Sakina landfill
01 · The collector

It starts with one bottle, and one person.

A collector picks a bottle off a roadside in Arusha, scans it into the app, drops it at a mobile buying station, and is paid on the spot. Every time. No middleman, no waiting, no discretion.

$0.165 / kg, paid instantly through the app to mobile money.

A dedicated collector earns around $210 a month, roughly three times Tanzania's minimum wage.

Every kilo GPS-stamped and named: the chain of custody that unlocks premium ocean-bound plastic credits.

A collector logs a pickup in Arusha
A collector logs a pickup · Arusha
The technology

One product. Three views of the same record.

LOOP is the street-facing brand collectors actually use. Every weigh-in lands once and is read three ways, as a collector's earnings, a depot officer's queue and batch, and an investor's provenance trail. Same data, same ground, different density.

Collector
Officer
Investor

Paid to M-Pesa at the scale. Red is what you collected, blue is what your team collected.

Registered
17:47Vodacom TZ · 5G · 96%
The Loop
Wallet
Collect
The Loop wallet
$571.38
≈ TSH 1,485,588 · paid via M-Pesa
From your collections
$257.60
From your team
$313.78
Recent collections
22.0 kg · PET clear+$4.24
18.5 kg · PET clear+$3.57
A mobile buying station mid-round
Mobile buying station · scheduled route
The fleet

Bring the depot to the community.

Five vehicles run scheduled mobile buying stations today, so collectors never travel far, scaling toward a fleet of 120 as sites roll out. At every visit they sell a basket of materials, PET, HDPE, aluminium and cardboard, at published, honest prices.

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vehicles today
0
fleet target
0km
catchment per depot
$0.40
The surplus is already growing.
Bought at $0.165/kg, already worth $0.40/kg at today's market price, stockpiling on site and growing every day.
Inside the plant

From bottle to food-grade pellet.

Because feedstock stockpiles during build-out, the plant runs two shifts from day one, around seven to eight tonnes processed daily. Six stages, fully traceable, through to a food-grade reactor and a pilot yarn line.

01

Collect & sort

Named collectors, app-logged, sorted by resin and colour.

02

Shred to flake

Granulated and friction-washed; caps float off for PP recovery.

03

Hot wash

Caustic hot-wash to food-contact cleanliness; water recycled.

04

Extrude to pellet

Twin-screw extrusion into uniform, sellable rPET pellet.

05

SSP reactor

Solid-state upgrade to food-grade IV.

Value gate
06

Pilot yarn

Sample yarn for brand qualification and the textile route.

Non-food pellet sells immediately. Food-grade follows once certified, commanding premium, long-term offtake from beverage and FMCG brands.

The loop closes

Nothing is wasted.

The bottle becomes food-grade pellet and recycled fibre. What cannot be recycled becomes something else entirely, and the value keeps circulating in the community that collected it.

rPET

Food-grade pellet and yarn for global brands.

HDPE

Jerricans and containers as a second product line.

Bricks

Non-recyclable plastic plus sand, pressed into interlocking bricks.

Roofing

Recycled composite sheets that outlast corrugated iron.

The people

Every loop closed changes a life.

MlimaLoop is not a plant with a community programme bolted on. The community is the business, its collectors, its operators, its pride. As the network grows, so do the people and the cities around it.

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skilled plant jobs
1,000s
collector livelihoods
0k
tonnes of plastic diverted over 15 years
Operators at a MlimaLoop facility
Forty fair, safe jobs per site

The waste becomes the bricks. The bricks become the homes. The homes keep the collectors who brought the waste in.

The roll-out

Prove Arusha. Then replicate a nation.

One proven model, rolled out city by city. Arusha is the blueprint; every site after it is a copy of a system that already works, reaching twelve operating sites across Tanzania.

The numbers

A business that funds its own expansion.

After Arusha is proven, each new site is paid for out of cash flow. The placement funds the build and accelerates the roll-out; the model does the rest.

Food-grade & non-food pelletCore
Ocean-bound plastic creditsPremium
Recycled yarn & fibreTextile
HDPE, bricks, roofing, capsBy-product
Licensing the model & appPlatform
$0M
annual revenue by Year 15
$0M
annual EBITDA by Year 15
0
operating sites across Tanzania
$0M
EBITDA already by Year 5

Base case, USD, from the full financial model. Projections, not guarantees.

The ask

A private placement to build and scale MlimaLoop. Fixed return, then your choice.

The collection network, the app and the licences are built and paid for, and feedstock is stockpiling on site. This private placement, not a loan note and not equity, funds the Arusha plant and accelerates the national roll-out, structured to pay a fixed return over three years, then hand the decision back to you.

$750k
Founder capital already deployed.
At risk, and ranking behind every placement investor. The founder loses first.
Year 1Paid as one payment at the end of month 12.10%
Year 210% per annum, paid 2.5% every quarter.10%
Year 310% per annum, paid 2.5% every quarter.10%
At 36 monthsYour choice: convert to equity in MlimaLoop, or take a full return of capital.Choice

Thirty per cent over three years, plus your capital back or a stake in the business, secured against the feedstock surplus and the machinery.

Private placement3-year term10% p.a.Asset-backedConvert or redeem
The placement · up to
$10M
$3M first close, rolling to a $10M cap.
Minimum investment$25,000 or currency equivalent
Return10% p.a. · 3-year term
At 36 monthsConvert to equity or redeem
Secured againstFeedstock surplus & machinery
Backs a business reaching$82M revenue
Apply to invest →Read the full memorandum (PDF)
From the mountain to the world

This is not charity. This is industry.

Every bottle is a resource. Every loop closed is a profit and a livelihood. If you are serious about the circular economy in Africa, build it with us.

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