PROJECTS
A network of remote community projects turning plastic waste into a recycling profit
We work with communities, who are often forgotten by the rest of the world, as they struggle to hold back the tide of plastic waste engulfing their environment. We provide education programs that encourage plastic to be seen as a valuable recyclable resource and not rubbish. We provide machinery and training to operate a sustainable plastic recycling micro-enterprise. We provide a marketplace for communities to sell their valuable recycled plastic.
LIVE
LES VILLAGE
Bali
INDONESIA
LIVE
MANTANANI
Sabah (Borneo)
MALAYSIA
LIVE
WHITSUNDAY ISLAND
Queensland
AUSTRALIA
ATAURO ISLAND
Timor Leste
EAST TIMOR
GILI AIR
Lombok
INDONESIA
GIZO ISLAND
Gizo
SOLOMON ISLANDS
TRASH MOUNTAIN
Sanur, Bali
INDONESIA
SIEM REAP
Siem Reap Provence
CAMBODIA
PERIPIH DORO
Lombok
INDONESIA
MABUL ISLAND
Sabah, Borneo
MALAYSIA
NORTH SIPORA
Mentawai Islands
WEST SUMATRA
TIOMAN ISLAND
Tioman
MALAYSIA
KEI ISLANDS
Yual/Langgur, Maluka Provence
INDONESIA
AMBON
Ambon, Maluka Provence
INDONESIA
KOH TAEN
5km south of Koh Samui
THAILAND
BECOME PLASTIC NEUTRAL
INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS & BUSINESSES
RECYCLE
We help establish community operated plastic recycling micro-enterprises
We provide communities with an innovative package of technologies, machinery, training and support that enables them to establish a profitable plastic recycling micro-enterprise.
EDUCATION
We deliver transformative plastic education programs
We believe in the principle that if something has value, it no longer becomes rubbish. Our educational and training programs, that are delivered throughs schools, community groups and government, are built around this principle. We encourage plastic to be seen as a precious resource that shouldn’t be thrown away and to eliminate single use plastic, substitute plastic use and circulate what you must use.
MARKETPLACE
We provide a marketplace for communities to sell their valuable recycled plastic
Collaboration between communities, businesses, brands and manufacturers provides an complete solution for establishing Plastic Resource Recovery partnerships. Using a 5 stage approach of Recovery (Collection), Concentration, Purifier, Manufacturer, Retail (Brand), PC will work with the projects supporting the development of viable supply chains and operational logistics.
OUR FOUNDER
Over 25 years ago, a young Louise Hardman (our founder) was volunteering with the Marine Education Society of Australasia on a turtle tagging program. She discovered a small green turtle that was dying a slow painful death from eating plastics hidden in the seagrass.
That turtle didn’t survive, but from that day Louise was determined to do something about the plastic waste epidemic. In memory of that day, the small green turtle is featured in Plastic Collective’s logo.
Today Louise is leading plastic educator, zoologist and science teacher, regularly speaking at international conferences and events about the need to address the global plastic waste epidemic.
Living in the small coastal village of Woolgoolga on the east coast of Australia, Louise developed a mobile recycling machine and an educational program focused on the chemistry of plastics and how to transform waste into valuable items. She started running workshops in how to transform plastic waste and ‘Know your Plastics’ seminars, as she developed the Plastic Collective business.
The goal was to help the world’s most vulnerable and remote communities whose lives and environments were being destroyed by plastic waste and where waste collection is mostly non-existent and plastic pollution is rampant.
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