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Every bottle you fund = one plastic bottle removed from the environment in Indonesia.
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Meet Haris from Bali
Haris lives in Bali with his wife and five children. They once ran a tattoo business until a devastating fire destroyed their home and livelihood. In the aftermath, Haris sold the remaining items from his house to a junkyard, where he discovered the value of recyclable materials, including plastic.
Ever since, he has collected plastics along riverbanks and through local neighbourhoods to support his family and protect the environment he loves. He hopes more people will recognize the urgent need to safeguard nature and our oceans from plastic pollution.
About Plastic Bank
Plastic Bank is a global bottle deposit program on a mission to help end poverty and stop plastic pollution.
Since 2013, our global network has grown to 57,675 collection members, collectively preventing the equivalent of 8.03 billion plastic bottles from polluting the environment. Here’s how it works:
- Individuals and businesses fund collection
Your contributions help finance the collection of discarded plastic. - Local collection members gather plastic
Elizabeth and thousands like her collect plastic from streets, coastlines, and neighborhoods. - Exchange for income & benefits
Collection members exchange plastic at a Plastic Bank branch for money or social benefits—helping them buy food, school supplies, and more. - Plastic is recycled
Gathered plastic is processed and reintegrated into new products, closing the loop on plastic waste.
Your event’s contribution:
- Every bottle funded = one bottle removed
When you fund a bottle, you directly empower a local collector to exchange plastic for income. - Verified social & environmental impact
Receive a digital certificate acknowledging the total number of bottles you’ve prevented from polluting the environment. - Share your impact
Showcase your commitment at your event, inspire attendees, and demonstrate how business gatherings can drive real change.
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Explain the work you do and what communities benefit.
Plastic Bank identifies vulnerable coastlines at the intersection of plastic pollution and poverty across the world that would benefit from plastic collection infrastructure. We then empower local entrepreneurs to establish collection branches in convenient locations and help gather collection communities together to collect discarded plastic from the environment. Community members exchange their collections at the branch for additional income and access to social, helping them to pave a path out of poverty and become changemakers by reducing plastic pollution. Collection members and collection branches are registered through the PlasticBank® app that records every transaction, enables traceable collection, secures income, and verifies reporting.
Who are the collection community members?
An individual who is over 18 years of age, registered through the PlasticBank® app, and gathers discarded plastic from the environment is a collection community member. Some are full-time members who have worked in informal waste collection for many years, while others work with us on a part-time basis to supplement other sources of income. Regardless of how much or how often our collection community members collect plastic, age-verified collection members can exchange plastic for additional income and social benefits at their local collection branch.
How does Plastic Bank find its collection community members?
Plastic Bank begins working in new territories with existing informal recycling communities wherever possible. We train and certify local collection communities (collection community members and collection branches alike) for compliance with our code of conduct and acquaint them with the PlasticBank® app usage requirements to enable traceability. We incentivize collection benefits for existing members and attract new participants.
We also establish Community Partnerships with local schools, places of worship, establishments, and institutions to set up accessible collection branches. We raise awareness about recycling and encourage proper waste segregation in households to reduce plastic pollution.
What do you do with the plastic after it’s collected?
The plastic collected through our collection communities is delivered to our processing partners for reprocessing into Social Plastic® feedstock and reintegrated into products and packaging by partner organizations and brands.
Why are you called a bank?
We reveal the true economic value of plastic, making it too valuable to be left in the environment. In doing so, we’ve created a system for plastic exchange similar to any other currency exchange. Our PlasticBank® app uses fintech and blockchain technology to securely execute plastic transactions. The app’s digital wallet is often the first savings account that our members own. For those reasons, we call ourselves Plastic Bank.