The development of a community-based organisation to treat municipal organic waste and process it into compost for the Mtandire area got established by a public-private partnership between Lilongwe City Council and several community groups and entrepreneurs. This collaboration enabled the city council to achieve better waste management in low-income areas, by adopting the model where women collect the organic waste from the neighborhood, sort it and then transport the waste, followed by Four Seasons Nursery (a large private horticultural company) buying and using that composted organic manure, providing income for the women.