Build a Profitable Industrial Waste Management Business in Nigeria

Nigeria's manufacturing sector generates millions of tonnes of industrial waste annually — textile offcuts, food processing by-products, chemical sludge, metal scrap, packaging waste — most of which is either landfilled or illegally dumped. The raw materials in this waste have real market value: textile offcuts to insulation or furniture filling, food by-products to animal feed, metal scrap to foundries. The gap is a collections and processing business that makes the economics work end-to-end. Your challenge is to design an industrial waste management business targeting one waste stream (textile offcuts, food processing by-products, or chemical packaging) in one Nigerian manufacturing cluster (Aba, Kano, Kaduna, or Ogun State). The business must be commercially self-sustaining without government subsidy, generate jobs in its operations, and reduce the volume of this waste stream going to landfill by at least 60%. Submit a business design document (max 12 pages) including: the waste stream and cluster chosen, collection model, processing technology, end market and pricing, employment model, unit economics, a 24-month financial projection, and environmental impact quantification. Judging criteria: 35% business model and financial projection credibility, 30% waste processing design, 20% end market development, 15% employment and environmental quantification.