Plastic Bank Blog

What is the Circular Economy? We’ve spent hundreds of years extracting materials to make products that end up in waste piles. This model of manufacturing is linear — you put stuff in, you get something, you use it, then throw it out. This practice is making our planet less habitable every passing minute; running it […]

Ocean plastic is one of the greatest threats to our marine ecosystem, harming more than 800 species that call it home1. Over the years, news about marine animals dying from ingesting plastic waste has become more and more common.  But isn’t it strange that animals would choose to eat plastic in the ocean over their […]

Plastic has been a priceless invention for human advancement. Yet, it also kills marine life and devastates our ocean. It’s a complex history, but let’s quickly learn when was plastic invented, where our relationship with plastic currently stands, and what we can do about it. In 1869, John Wesley Hyatt invented the first hard plastic […]

Ocean-bound plastic has undoubtedly become a buzzword in the environmental space. You might have heard of it, but many wonder the same thing – what does it really mean? Simply put, ocean-bound plastic is any discarded plastic material within 50 kilometers of our precious seas, streams, rivers, and lakes that is likely to enter the […]

Make sure your approach has positive, measurable impacts that can be brought to scale. Make sure it can reach at least a million people and make their lives measurably better. Paul Polak, social entrepreneur and author of Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail To be brought to scale, Plastic Bank had to […]