Salisu Abdullahi has more than seven years of experience in sustainable waste collection and management, particularly plastic waste. Salisu is the founder and managing director of eTrash2Cash, a social enterprise in Nigeria that allows low-income people to earn cash incentives in exchange for their trash, which is then reprocessed and recycled into reusable materials. Salisu also volunteers at the Youth Coalition against Terrorism, a youth-led non-governmental organization that unites youth against violent extremism in northern Nigeria. A 2016 Mandela Washington Fellow, Salisu holds a Master of Science in Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology with distinction. In the future, Salisu plans to expand his business into the direct recycling of a variety of other post-consumer wastes into eco-friendly and reusable products.