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New Plastics Economy Global Commitment 2021 Progress Report
New Plastics Economy Global Commitment 2021 Progress ReportPlastic Bank empowers the regenerative society. We build ethical recycling ecosystems in coastal communities and reprocess the materials for reintroduction into the global supply chain. Our goal by 2025 is to...
Season of Creation Interfaith Webinar: Jubilee in the three Abrahamic traditions
These concepts play an important role in the three Abrahamic traditions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. They also underlie the principles of Plastic Bank’s model to help stop ocean plastic while improving the lives of collector communities.
New Plastics Economy Global Commitment Report 2020
New Plastics Economy Global Commitment Report 2020 In Partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation We empower the regenerative society. We build ethical recycling ecosystems in coastal communities, and reprocess the materials for reintroduction into the global...
We are celebrating our 7th anniversary
We are celebrating our 7th anniversary! 7 years ago our founders, David Katz and Shaun Frankson, recognized that rather than seeing plastic as just a convenience, we needed a way to reveal its inherent value. They then stepped into the unknown and created a platform...
International Women’s Day 2020
International Women’s Day 2020 We believe an equal world is an enabled world. This International Women’s Day, we are celebrating our women collectors who provide for their families and care for their communities by collecting ocean bound plastic. Recycling...
Faith and a Regenerative Economy: Doing Business for the benefit of People and Planet
Faith and a Regenerative Economy: Doing Business for the benefit of People and Planet Never in human history have so many people enjoyed so much wealth and prosperity. However, our economic model isn’t sustainable. Our society operates on a wasteful...
2019 was a BIG year for Plastic Bank!
Our encouraging progress in 2019 sets us up for an even stronger 2020! Thanks to our over 75 brand partners and 400+ individual plastic neutral commitments, we are advancing into the new decade full of enthusiasm and purpose.
Season of Creation Faith Webinar
SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2019 Season of Creation Faith WebinarSeason of Creation is a significant initiative by the Christian community to care for our planet. It runs every year from September 01 with the Day of Prayer for Creation to October 04, the day of St. Francis of...
Creative Ways to Show Support
ANYONE CAN HAVE AN IMPACT Creative Ways to Show SupportWe have many formal programs where individuals and organizations can help us stop ocean plastic and reduce poverty. We also get many small contributions throughout the year from people who want to do more but...
Building Global Solutions to fight Ocean Plastic
PETER NITSHKE - CONGREGATION MANAGER Building Global Solutions to fight Ocean PlasticOcean Plastic and poverty are global problems that need global solutions. A study by Tearfund explored the connections of poverty and plastic pollution stating that poor people are...
New Plastics Economy
GLOBAL COMMITMENT New Plastics EconomyPlastic Bank is a proud signatory of the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment along with 350 organisations around the world. The Global Commitment aims to eliminate unnecessary plastic, innovate more recyclable and efficient...
Does God have an opinion about plastic?
PETER NITSHKE - CONGREGATION MANAGER Does God have an opinion about plastic?I started to think about this back in 1998, when I was living in a Slum in Manila as a grassroot worker for a Christian NGO. Plastic waste was everywhere: on the roads, in every corner, in the...