Turn Your Waste Into Rewards
Never pay for waste collection again
Your waste. Your reward.
CIRCULAR is a simple, reward-based waste management system in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area. Households and businesses are rewarded for sorting their waste at source (plastics, organics, paper, metals & more).
You get free scheduled pickups for your properly sorted waste, and rewards are sent to your mobile wallet.
How It Works
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Sort your waste at source using these simple guidelines
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Schedule a free pickup at or [this whatsapp number]
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Get rewarded for every clean, sorted batch of waste
Why this Matters
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Cleaner neighborhoods
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Fewer and smaller landfills, preferably no landfills at all
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Green jobs and formal support for informal waste ecosystem players
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Progress toward a true circular economy in Uganda and Africa
Join the movement today—powered by the higher value of clean recyclables and future EPR contributions.
Be Part of the Change
We are currently preparing a small pilot with selected households in Kampala.
Help us shape the future of waste management.
Join the waitlist or take our short survey
or sign up as a partner.
Ash Luwambo
Ash Luwambo is a Ugandan entrepreneur, technologist, and innovator. He is the co-founder and vice president of operations at OlyCash Inc., a SaaS tech focused on removing e-commerce barriers in cash-dominant economies.
Earlier in his career, Ash served as managing director at New Wave Technologies, a leading software development company in East Africa.
Ash has also contributed to public health and research initiatives, providing IT support for COVID-19 evidence synthesis and research activities at the Africa Centre for Systematic Reviews and Knowledge Translation at Makerere University.
Through this work, he helped support digital systems that facilitated research collaboration and knowledge management during the pandemic.
In addition to his technology and operations background, Ash is increasingly involved in sustainability and circular economy initiatives, exploring practical approaches to effective waste management in Uganda. These efforts focus on reducing landfill dependency while demonstrating scalable circular resource models in a rapidly urbanizing country.
Across his work in fintech, software development, and environmental innovation, Ash is motivated by the belief that technology should solve real-world problems. Active in local technology and development circles, his curiosity about science and innovation is reflected in his X (Twitter) bio: “DNA is marvelous!”