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The pile
A waste pile that was a breeding ground for malaria and other disease. Residents say everyone in the village had lost someone to it.
In the photograph: cattle and goats feeding on the pile, a few metres from the roofs.
The main film
Mabushi, Abuja
Waste,cleared.
Waste and river cleanups where collection does not reach. Crews are paid for the haul, and every haul is on the record.
02Purpose
Every haul counted.
Every crew paid.
A cleanup is finished when the waste is counted and gone.
01
Crews do the work
Boots, gloves, sacks, trucks. Local partners run the days and Aquari publishes every one of them.
02
Everything is counted
Loads are counted and photographed. The counts and photographs land in the public record.
03
Anyone can fund a day
Supporters send AQUARI from the app, on Base, straight to a project wallet.
20+
countries with community cleanups
Days run by the people who live there.
200+
people at Mabushi, Abuja
Paid for the haul.
11,000+
people in the community
On Telegram, X and in the app.
As of September 2026
The app runs the day: find the work, get paid in AQUARI for a verified haul, back a crew, or vote on where the next cleanup goes. The chain is only the ledger.
Before the crews came, it looked like this.
03Evidence
Mabushi, Abuja,
in five photographs.
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Neighbours
The village first took us for another outside NGO that would film and leave. The work was done by 200+ people, paid for the haul.
In the photograph: volunteers and residents together in front of the pile, before the work started.
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The day
Crews, residents and volunteers on the same line, hand-loading from the pile. Every person logged and paid.
In the photograph: a long line of crew in blue shirts along the face of the pile, some bent over the waste.
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The trucks
600+ truck trips to the landfill, each one paid and recorded. About 21,000 tonnes, estimated by volume.
600+
truck trips
21,000 t
estimated by volume
About 35 tonnes a trip, all of it from one pile beside people's homes.
In the photograph: a loader filling a tipper. Behind it, residents sit under the tents.
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After
Cleared ground where the pile stood. Residents prayed for the crews, and the work carries on from here.
In the photograph: the same plot from the drone, before and after. The ringed house is in both frames.
The rest of the day, as shot.
Mabushi, Abuja, January 2026.
04Films
See it happen.
Then hear it from them.
In their own words, uncut.
05AQUARI
Paid for the work.
Used to back the next day.
Supporter walletBaseProject walletWaste off the site
A transfer leaves a supporter's wallet, lands on Base, and reaches the coordinator running the day. Anyone can follow it there, long after the day is done.
01
Get paid for the haul
Cleaners are paid in AQUARI for verified cleanup work. The app is where that day is logged.
02
Back a project
Supporters send AQUARI to a project wallet. That is how a cleanup day gets funded.
03
Decide where next
Supporters vote on where the crew goes next. Back a day, then decide the one after it.
- Network
- Base (Ethereum L2)
- Standard
- ERC-20
- Contract
06Journey
From flood relief
to Mabushi.
- 01
Founded in Poland and the USA
A cleanup group that wanted the work written down, not just done.
- 02
Pepinster and Limburg relief
Emergency response clearing riverbanks and flood debris across Belgium and the Netherlands.
- 03
India partnership
Weekly cleanups launched with local partners in India.
- 04
First public app release
A public place to log cleanup events and document what was collected.
- 05
Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland
Waste and river days with local crews.
- 06
Events and wallets
Self-custodial wallets, event maps and photographic haul registries ship in the app.
- 07
Pakistan
Waste cleanups with local crews.
- 08
Aquari V2 on Base
Cleanup funding moves to Base for low fees and a public record.
- 09
Pakistan, on site
Our own team on the ground, in person. The programme continues.
- 10
Mabushi, Abuja
200+ people clear a disease-breeding waste pile in 600+ truck trips. About 21,000 tonnes, estimated by volume.
- 11Not written yet
The next cleanup
It is listed in the app. Join it or fund it, and it becomes entry eleven.
2021 to 2026.
From flood debris on Belgian riverbanks to a cleared plot in Abuja. The same work, written down every time.
07FAQ
The short
version.
What crews and supporters ask us first.
[email protected]Next cleanup day
The next cleanup
is open.
Find a cleanup near you and join the crew. Read the haul records. Or fund a day, then vote on where the next one happens.
Questions? [email protected]
