Find a collection point near you
Collectors can find participating collection points close to home, so recycling fits into the day instead of interrupting it. No long journeys to hand over materials.
Recycling, paid instantly
Getting paid for recycling shouldn’t take weeks.
Bolar pays collectors in under 60 seconds, gives anyone the tools to run a recycling operation, and turns every kilogram collected into impact you can see and prove.
For recycling operators, collectors, and partners across Nigeria.
Collection #4417
Ikeja Collection Point
Material
PET plastic
Weight
42.0 kg
Paid to collector
₦ 0
Materials weighed and confirmed
Payment sent — bank transfer
Record written — permanently verifiable
Illustration of a Bolar transaction: 42 kilograms of PET plastic weighed, and ₦8,400 paid to the collector in 41 seconds.
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Tonnes of plastic waste Nigeria produces every year
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Of it is recycled. The rest reaches drainage, groundwater and landfill
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Of collectors operators lose — because the money takes too long
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Time it takes Bolar to put money in a collector’s hands
The problem
The recycling already happens.
The payment is what fails.
Across Nigeria, hundreds of thousands of people already collect plastic. Waste pickers. Students. Market traders. Estate associations. The work is happening every single day.
What breaks is what comes after. Collectors wait seven to thirty days to receive their money, and sometimes receive vouchers they cannot spend on rent, transport or school fees. For someone earning daily, that wait is not an inconvenience. It is a reason to stop.
So they stop. Operators lose forty to sixty percent of their collectors to this one problem. And the plastic that would have been collected stays in the drains, the waterways and the landfill.
What Bolar does
One platform. Four things that change how recycling works.
Bolar is the payment and technology infrastructure behind Africa’s recycling economy. We do not collect waste, process plastic, or sell machines. We build the software that recycling operators run on — so collectors get paid fast, operators can grow, and every kilogram collected becomes a record that can be verified.
Pay collectors in seconds
Operators pay collectors the moment materials are weighed. Money arrives by bank transfer, mobile money or airtime in under 60 seconds. No vouchers. No waiting.
Track every kilogram
Every collection is recorded permanently and independently verifiable: what was collected, how much it weighed, where and when. Operators turn those records into sellable carbon credits.
See your impact
Collectors watch their contribution add up in real time and earn permanent milestone badges for what they have kept out of the environment. Proof of work that cannot be taken away.
For collectors
Your work has value. Get paid like it does.
Find a collection point near you, hand over your materials, and receive your money in seconds.
You already do the work. Bolar makes sure the payment matches the effort. Bring plastic and other accepted materials to a participating collection point, watch them weighed, and receive your money before you leave. Bank transfer, mobile money or airtime, whichever suits you.
There is no minimum before you can cash out. No vouchers you cannot spend. No waiting until the end of the month.
Find a Collection Point Near You
The collector app — balance, milestone badge and every payment, on an everyday Android phone.
Find operators near you
Bolar shows you participating collection points close to where you live and work.
Get paid in under 60 seconds
Money reaches your bank account, mobile wallet or phone credit in under a minute.
Watch your impact grow
See exactly how much you have collected and what it means for your community. Every kilogram counts and every kilogram is counted.
Earn permanent recognition
Reach 100kg, 500kg and one tonne and earn milestone badges that are permanently yours. They cannot be bought, sold or transferred. They are earned.
Works on your phone
Built for everyday Android phones, works offline, and available in English, Pidgin, Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa.
For operators
Run a recycling operation without building the technology.
Bolar gives you the payment rails, the records and a second revenue stream. You bring the collectors.
Building a recycling business should not require building a payment system, an identity check, a fraud control layer and a reporting dashboard first. Those are engineering problems, and they stop most people before they start.
Bolar removes all of them. You get everything you need to run collections, pay people, and prove what you have done — live in 30 days, with no machines to buy.
The operator dashboard — wallet, live collections, active collectors and payouts in one view.
Pay your collectors instantly
Scan, weigh, confirm. Payment reaches the collector in under 60 seconds through bank transfer, mobile money or airtime. Fast payment is the single biggest reason collectors stay.
Track your entire operation
See every collection as it happens. Weights, materials, locations, payments. Know what is working across every collection point you run.
No hardware required
Pure software. No recycling machines, no reverse vending kiosks, no capital outlay.
Turn records into carbon credits
This is where the numbers change.
Sold as scrap
₦200/kg
Sold as a verified carbon credit
₦600/kg
Roughly 2.7× more revenue from material you already collect, settled immediately instead of on 30-day terms.
Corporations facing Extended Producer Responsibility obligations need provable evidence that recycling actually happened. Most operators cannot provide it because their records are on paper. Yours will be verifiable by anyone, including an auditor.
Start a recycling operation
Anyone can start a recycling business. Bolar gives you the rails.
Bring a location, a weighing scale and a community. We provide everything else.
The recycling sector in Nigeria does not scale by one company getting large. It scales when thousands of people can start operations of their own. That has not been possible because the technology barrier was too high.
Bolar lowers it to almost nothing. Whether you are opening your first collection point in Ibadan or expanding an established operation across three states, you get the same infrastructure: payments, tracking, verification and carbon credit access. Live in 30 days.
Start With BolarHow it works
From collection to payment in four steps.
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1
Find
Find a collection point near you
Collectors locate a participating collection point close to home and bring their materials.
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2
Weigh
Materials weighed and recorded
The operator scans the collector’s code, weighs the materials, and confirms the type and amount.
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3
Get paid
Money arrives in under 60 seconds
The collector receives payment by bank transfer, mobile money or airtime before leaving the collection point.
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Verified
The record is permanent
The collection is recorded permanently and independently verifiable, connecting weight, location, time and payment — proof of impact for the collector, a sellable carbon credit for the operator.
The impact story
Every kilogram changes something. Now everyone can see it.
- 100kilograms Earned
- 500kilograms Earned
- 1tonne Earned
A single collector clearing plastic from her neighbourhood is doing environmental work. She has just never had a way to prove it, and no one has ever paid her fast enough to make it worth continuing.
Bolar changes both. She sees her total climb with every collection. She earns permanent milestone badges at 100kg, 500kg and one tonne that no one can take from her. Her operator sees the same records and can sell them as verified carbon credits, earning more from the same material. A corporation buys those credits with real proof behind them instead of a self-reported spreadsheet. A state agency sees auditable data instead of estimates.
Same kilogram of plastic. Four people whose work it finally counts for.
Recycling already works. We fixed the part where nobody got paid or credited for it.
Who it’s for
Built for everyone who keeps the recycling economy moving.
Recycling operators
Run and grow your operation without building payment technology. Manage collections, pay collectors instantly, track every kilogram, and earn from verified carbon credits.
For operatorsCollectors
Get paid fast and see what your work is worth. Find a collection point near you, get paid in under 60 seconds, and watch your impact grow.
Find a collection pointInvestors
Infrastructure for Africa’s growing recycling economy. Bolar is the payment and verification layer the sector runs on, connecting collections, payments and provable impact at scale.
Talk to usGovernment & partners
Recycling data you can actually verify. Permanent, independently verifiable records of collections and payments for Extended Producer Responsibility compliance, donor reporting and programme monitoring.
Partner with BolarBuilt for the realities of recycling in Nigeria.
Instant payouts — under 60 seconds
Verifiable records, checkable by anyone
Built for Nigeria — offline, five languages
No hardware required
Live in 30 days
Bolar is a recycling payment platform for Africa. It lets recycling operators pay
collectors in under 60 seconds, track every collection, and earn from verified carbon
credits — while collectors find nearby collection points and see the impact of
their work.
Bring your recyclable materials to a Bolar collection point and get them weighed. Payment reaches you in under 60 seconds by bank transfer, mobile money or airtime. There is no minimum amount and no waiting period.
Find a Collection Point Near YouYou can start a recycling operation using Bolar’s infrastructure without building payment technology yourself. Bring a location, a weighing scale and a community. Bolar provides collection management, instant payments, record tracking and carbon credit access — live in 30 days with no hardware to buy.
Start With Bolar
Under 60 seconds. Once your materials are weighed and confirmed, money reaches your
bank account, mobile money wallet or phone as airtime before you leave the collection
point.
Join the Bolar list and we will notify you as soon as a participating collection point opens near you. Where you can collect from is exactly what we are building the map for.
Find a Collection Point Near You
Every collection Bolar records is permanently verifiable, which is what corporate
buyers need before purchasing carbon credits. Operators can sell verified credits for
significantly more than the scrap value of the same material, with immediate
settlement.