Tunisia • Waste: Solid waste management
- Sector: Waste: Solid waste management
- Headquarters Country: Tunisia
- Founding Year: 2014
- Operating Regions: Tunisia,Germany
- Founders: Wafa Bouddaga , Hassene ZAYANI
- Problem Identified: Waste management has become an increasing challenge in Tunisia. Municipalities that are responsible for waste management are underfunded. Many municipalities became unable to ensure the daily removal of waste because of strikes and general lack of capacity, generating an increase in unregulated and illegal rubbish dumps and black spots in public spaces covering the national territory.
- Solution Offered: The solution is the technology of semi-buried containers. Convinced of the ecological, economic, and social importance of its characteristics, wafa became the representative in Tunisia of a Finnish company that produces these containers. In 2009, Wafa launched the Envitou enterprise using her own savings and a small funding from the Finnish partners, and commercialized 16 semi-buried containers produced by the same company. Launched in 2014 for municipalities
- Social Impact: Cost of waste management can be reduced because of reduced frequency of (weekly rather than daily)., and durability and low maintenance costs of the installations. Improved control of odor and bacterial contamination compared to current temperature controlledinstallations required for hotels, clinics, supermarkets, private residencies, etc.
- Contributors: in partnership with 11 private country
- Funding: After convincing a Finnish company to get financed now the key revenue stream is from sales of the semi-buried containers. The customer base is steadily expanding after the success of the initial PPP. Envitou STAS is also diversifying its product offerings to move to a new client base
- Website: http://envitou-stas.com
- LinkedIn: unfortunately Envitou does not have any social media except Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Envitou.STAS/
- Score: 7 Victim support services
- More Info: Evitou Stas is actually a collaboration between envitou witch is Wafa project and Stas a Solid waste management company
