Offset Foundation & Plastic Collective: Tackling carbon and plastic pollution together
What if your company could address climate change and plastic pollution at the same time with verified results and visible proof? That’s the idea behind the partnership between The Offset Foundation and Plastic Collective. Together, we’re helping businesses reduce, recover, and report on both their carbon and plastic footprints through certified impact programs that make […]
Cozycove & Plastic Collective: A partnership driving certified plastic impact
A partnership driving certified plastic
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Beyond World Habitat Day: How plastic recovery protects homes, not just oceans
Every year on October 6, the world marks World Habitat Day. It’s a moment to reflect on the state of our towns, cities, and communities. It’s a reminder that a safe home is not just a roof over our heads, but the right to live in a clean, healthy environment. But as the day passes, […]
Lives transformed: The human side of brand-led plastic recovery
Lives transformed: The human side of brand-led plastic recovery Plastic pollution is often told in numbers: millions of tonnes produced each year, rivers clogged, oceans in crisis. But behind every statistic is a human story. A woman in Accra lifting sacks of discarded plastic. A child in Java walking past rivers where plastic flows like […]
Launching the Plastic Collective Foundation: Supporting the Heroes Behind Plastic Recovery
Plastic Collective has been in operation since 2016 as a social enterprise–a for-profit business with the purpose of preventing plastic pollution. By creating innovative systems we have explored and worked within the fields of education, economics, community development, creative arts and manufacturing. From the beginning, my siblings (Steve and Dianne Hardman) and I created a […]
UN Business & Human Rights (UNHBR) Regional Forum Australia & New Zealand
“Lets start talking about people again, lets talk about exploitation”. – Chris Evans, Australian Anti-slavery Commissioner (UNBHR, 2025). Over 300 people from multiple business, research and civil sectors came together for the UN Business and Human Rights Regional Forum in Melbourne, hosted by UN Global Impact Network Australia. The 2-day conference focused on various Australian […]
Plastic Overshoot Day 2025: Warning signal, opportunity for change
Today, September 5, 2025, is Plastic Overshoot Day. It marks the moment when the world’s plastic waste generation surpasses our ability to manage it. From this day onward, every additional ton of plastic risks becoming pollution, leaking into rivers, oceans, soils, and even our bodies. This year’s EA for Impact Report findings are sobering. Global […]
INC 5.2 Plastic Treaty Negotiations: What just happened?!
Introduction At this historical moment in the plastic crisis, it’s nearly impossible to sidestep mounting plastic pollution. Piles of plastic waste accumulate in neighborhoods and coastlines across the world. An estimated USD 15 trillion in investment is needed between 2025 and 2040 to reduce global annual mismanaged plastic volumes by 90 percent relative to 2019 […]
When art meets ocean waste: Inside the Hunter Gatherer Networks movement
Explore how Indigenous artists are turning ghost gear and marine debris into stories, livelihoods, and resistance, and how the Hunter Gatherer app is building a new kind of cultural marketplace. Over the past 3 years we have been working with some amazing and inspiring indigenous rangers and artists who collect and transform marine debris and […]
What if Plastic-Free July isn’t about being plastic-free at all?
Plastic-Free July often starts with a simple challenge: refuse plastic. But what if the real opportunity lies not in rejection but in reimagination? At Plastic Collective, we don’t just say no to plastic. We say yes to smarter systems, inclusive solutions, and treating plastic as a resource, not a villain. Because plastic doesn’t become waste […]
