September 2025: Break-even analysis and Nkopolo’s Recyclables’ Waste Management Report

Source: Facebook - Eswatini Public Procurement Regulatory Agency

Recycling [the collection of barcoded items from waste material] requires a medium-to-long-term plan (strategy) — the Kent Rock Recycling Shed is looking into developing its Enterprise Waste Management Report to finance its short-term capital requirements [needs], while it waits endlessly for a capital injection from ESwatini Environment Authority’s Waste Management Innovation Challenge and the Royal Science & Technology Park’s Sustainable Development Goals Innovative Enterprise Challenge.

There is an ideal business arrangement for this solution - but there are prevailing prohibiting market conditions that the Kent Rock Recycling Shed needs to address: There are three distinct areas that determine  the success of the Kent Rock Recycling Shed’s solution —- firstly, organizational culture; secondly, the support from the local buy-back centre; and lastly, the subsidy that defines the Kent Rock Recycling Shed’s proposed commercial entity (Lilangeni Recyclables LTD).

The Kent Rock Recycling Shed is targeting to get its supply of barcoded items from waste material from companies and organizations located in the capital city of the Kingdom of ESwatini (Mbabane) — over the past 3 years, the conversation with public and private sector organizations lacks reference to academic material: individuals are spending more time on their personal lives making calls, processing mobile money transactions to family & friends and engaging in informal practices on job [eating on the counter/engaging with irrelevant content online]; there’s also a language barrier with small shop owners [particularly run by foreign nationals and uneducated individuals] prohibiting the project’s research and development initiatives.

The buy-back center is the Kent Rock Recycling Shed’s primary source of revenue – however, the project is experiencing difficulty getting the support that comes with supplying the local buy-back center with recyclables [human resources on-sight seem to lack the academic enthusiasm to understand what the award winning solution requires from the establishment they are working for {the Kent Rock Recycling Shed requires the buy-back center to lend it 6 bags to accumulate recyclables over a period of 3 months - and for the buy-buy back center to send their designated vehicle to collect these recyclables for weighing and payment}].

The Kent Rock Recycling Shed’s proposed subsidy requires the attention of the ESwatini Climate Change Youth Parliament, local municipalities, commercial property owners and other applicable public sector organizations including the ESwatini Environment Authority, the Ministry of Tourism & Environmental Affairs and the Ministry of Housing & Urban Development to name a few.

In the month of July - the Kent Rock Recycling Shed announced in its monthly report that its solution was being considered in the Entrepreneurship World Cup and the 2026 Zayed Sustainability Prize: the Kent Rock Recycling Shed was, unfortunately, informed that it lost its position(s) to a competitive pool of applicants.

In its continued quest for formalization [official registration with the Government of ESwatini’s registrar of companies under the Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Trade] and recognition [funding and technical support] — the Kent Rock Recycling Shed moved into an office [M111] in Sidvwashini to work with student Environment Clubs to raise awareness about its solution to the most academically engaged individuals of the target group of ESwatini Environment Authority’s Waste Management Innovation Challenge.