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# Nigerian cleantech startup Kaltani secures $4 million seed funding
- URL: https://www.techloy.com/nigerian-clean-tech-startup-kaltani-secures-4-million-funding/
- Published: 2022-05-11T14:50:56.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-08T00:31:17.000Z
- Author: Oluwajuwonlo Afolabi
- Tags: CleanTech, Tech in Nigeria

[Kaltani,](https://kaltani.com/) a Nigeria-based cleantech startup has secured $4 million in seed funding to tackle plastic pollution and expand its recycling services in the country. 

- The recycling startup plans to open 20 new plastic collection centers in Nigeria and increase its employee number to 500 to recycle 15,000 tones plastic waste annually.
- With a team of 100 spread across the country for plastic bottle collection and processing, Kaltani uses data analytics, predictive analytics, and geo-mapping for waste collection, sorting, washing and recycling.
- The startup converts collected plastic waste to PET flakes, PE and PP pellets as raw materials for manufacturing companies.