Asia
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Organization
Circulate Capital
Investment firm financing waste and recycling businesses in South and Southeast Asia, where leakage is highest.
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Organization
GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives)
Network of grassroots groups building zero waste cities and fair work for waste pickers, as an alternative to burning plastic.
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Organization
Global Plastic Action Partnership
Hosted by the World Economic Forum; helps countries build national plastic action roadmaps with government, business and civil society.
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Law or Bill
India ban on identified single-use plastics
India | In force since July 2022
Bans the making, sale and use of a list of low-utility single-use items, such as plastic cutlery, straws and thin carry bags, from July 2022.
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Organization
Ocean Recovery Alliance
Hong Kong
Hong Kong based group behind practical tools that help cities and businesses measure and reduce plastic leakage.
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Organization
One Earth One Ocean
Munich and Kiel, Germany | Founded 2011
German nonprofit that builds its own waste-collecting boats and runs local collection and sorting teams to clear plastic from rivers, harbours and coasts.
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Organization
Plastic Bank
Vancouver, Canada | Founded 2013
Pays collectors in coastal communities a premium for plastic they gather, using a digital record to trace the material to brands that reuse it.
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Organization
Plastic Free Bali (Rotary)
West Bali, Indonesia
A Rotary Foundation global grant by the Rotary Clubs of Bali Seminyak, Woodend (Victoria) and Perth with Yayasan Biosfir Indonesia, bringing waste sorting, composting, recycling and door-to-door education to four villages beside West Bali National Park.
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Technology
Recycled plastic building materials
Commercial
Mixed and low-value plastic is compressed into boards, blocks and bricks for construction, creating a market for plastic nobody else will buy.
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Technology
River interceptors and booms
Deployed in many countries
Floating barriers and conveyor systems anchored in rivers catch plastic before it reaches the sea, where it is far harder to recover.
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Organization
RiverRecycle
Helsinki, Finland | Founded 2019
Finnish company that installs river cleaning systems on heavily polluted rivers and turns the collected plastic into building boards, creating local jobs.
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Organization
Rotary Waste to Resource Hub (Philippines)
Victoria, Laguna, Philippines
A Rotary global grant with Australian and Philippine clubs, led by Dana Asia and Nexuz, turning hard-to-recycle plastic sachets into eco-bricks and pavers in Victoria, Laguna: 7.2 tonnes recycled a year and 12 jobs created.
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Technology
Waste collection boats
Deployed
Slow-moving catamarans with nets collect floating plastic in harbours, estuaries and coastal waters, then bring it ashore for sorting.