Plastic recovery & recycling

Sangkara in Denpasar, Bali, incentivise the collection and recovery of PET litter and the sorting at municipal level. With the approval of the village authorities, Sangkara flipped the local sorting centre into a recycling powerhouse, enforcing best practices among waste workers and efficiently providing outlets for an emerging waste collection service in the surrounding community of Sidakarya.

Plastic collection, sorting, and baling, enabling local and international end product manufacturing from plastic waste. Providing employment and benefits to local communities. And raising awareness in the process of the importance of plastic recovery and recycling.

ECCT (Environmental Conservation Community of Tanzania) is an NGO hosting monthly beach clean-ups in collaboration with local cleanup organisations.

🇮🇩Indonesia is the biggest archipelago in the world with at least 13500 islands. Meaning that marine debris has become an increasingly important internal problem. Empower collaborates with @oceankita in several locations in Indonesia, to incentivise the collection and recovery of marine and riverway plastic debris. 🌊OceanKita uses an innovative trawl net to carry plastic-fishing operations offshore of remote islands and incentivize fishermen communities to also collect floating waste in their environment.

🎉 We’ve just hit a milestone: We've tracked over 700 million kg of materials on our blockchain-enabled platform! This represents 0.08% of the plastic globally, but every bit counts in our journey towards a fully transparent circular economy. Data is crucial for advancing circular economies, and we are determined to keep pushing the boundaries, tracking more to enhance visibility and transparency around material flows. 🌏 A huge thank you to our amazing partners who share our vision and commitment 🤝♻️ We keep on going!

Empower collaborates with VeryNile to socially and economically empower local fishermen to clean the Nile on a daily basis and increase incentives for Nile’s fishermen to collect more plastic from the river. Every day, this new green army removes an average of 100 kg of plastic waste from the Nile.

A public blockchain developed by Tide Ocean Material and Empower could make recycled plastic waste material more resistant to false or inaccurate claims https://circularonline.co.uk/news/tide-impl

Empower, Plastic Positive and Sunset Boutique have partnered to clean up another 2500kgs of plastic waste and address the plastic pollution crisis by funding beach cleanups. 🌊 According to the World Bank, around 90% of ocean plastic comes from just 10 rivers in Asia and Africa. In response to this global challenge, Empower has developed a blockchain-based platform that incentivizes individuals and businesses to collect, sort, and recycle plastic waste, while tracking its journey through the supply chain.

Empower was placed 1st as one of the 16 finalists in the Circular Packaging Challenge. "Many companies claim that their products are made out of X% recycled material, but can they prove it and visualize it? There is a need for transparency, and Empower can help with tracking, let them tell the story of their materials" - Erlend (Commercial Director Empower)

Plastic Fischer aggregate plastics from rivers and create jobs in India and Indonesia, preventing plastic waste from reaching the ocean by installing low-tech, locally-built & low-cost barriers in some of the most polluted Asian rivers. Plastic Fischer collects more than 30 tons of River Plastic a month, has created 52 jobs and has been raising awareness, making a tremendous impact on the local communities.

Empower cleanup at Chowpatty beach - Mumbai, India with our partners Bija org and Sunflower Welfare foundation.

Empower has recently collaborated with the Environmental Conservation Community of Tanzania (ECCT) to incentivise and improve plastic waste pollution in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Empower embarks upon monthly beach clean-ups alongside ECCT, with an incredible 70,898kg of waste collected in Tanzania in the first six months of 2022!

Since early 2022, OceanKita has been collecting ocean plastic in Indonesia, as one of Empower's partners. With a special trawl-net collector equipment, they are able to pick marine debris, and later sort the marine waste working in remote locations where waste management is deficient or nonexistent. So far in 2022 OceanKita has collected about 3 tons of marine plastic waste and now employs 5 people.

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