Waste Ventures will transform the way municipal garbage is handled in developing countries into a more environmentally and socially friendly process based on market mechanisms.  Currently in the developing world, social organizations work to create better lives for marginalized wastepickers (those at the base of society that handle garbage and earn a meager living through recycling). 

Waste Ventures converts these existing wastepicker social organizations into commercially investable triple bottom line ventures by providing 

1. A solid waste management blueprint 
2. Investment capital, and 
3. Technical and organizational expertise.  

Waste Venture’s intervention opens the door to commercial capital which enables waste organizations invest in processes, people, and infrastructure – necessary to achieve scale.  Thus, waste organizations can employ more wastepickers, create better lives for wastepickers, create cleaner cities, and reduce greenhouse gases.