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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

MABUL ISLAND

Sabah, Borneo
MALAYSIA

NORTH SIPORA

Mentawai Islands
WEST SUMATRA

KEI ISLANDS

Yual/Langgur, Maluka Provence
INDONESIA

AMBON

Ambon, Maluka Provence
INDONESIA

KOH TAEN

5km south of Koh Samui
THAILAND

LES VILLAGE

Bali
INDONESIA

MANTANANI ISLAND

Sabah, Borneo
INDONESIA

WHITSUNDAY ISLANDS

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 ISLAND

Yuak/Lannggur, Maluka Provence
INDONESIA

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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