Vanessa Pierre is a first generation American; daughter of two immigrant parents from Ayiti. In 2017, for the first time in over two decades, she retuned home. Vanessa witnessed merchants, street vendors, selling fruit, vegetables and meats on top of debris; she witnessed large piles of waste burning in the streets. There was an absence of waste management infrastructure and no one to tell these people of the health implications that come with improperly disposing waste. Because of this, people are left to dispose of their trash by dumping it into the canals, open waterways, or burning it in the street. From this experience, EcoRenew Solutions was born.