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A story behind every bottle
At 68, Elizabeth refuses to slow down. As a street sweeper in Baseco, Manila, she has spent years witnessing plastic waste choke her community—flooded streets, polluted waters, and discarded plastic piling up around her.
But instead of accepting it, she took action.
By collecting and exchanging plastic, she not only keeps her neighbourhood cleaner but also provides for her family. With her earnings, she buys daily essentials like rice. Most importantly, she's helping her grandchild stay in school. Through her hard work, she was able to secure a tablet for her grandchild's education—something that once felt impossible.
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Frequently asked questions
Plastic Bank does not pay a salary to its members. They receive the local market rate for plastic by material type in cash from the buyer of the materials (collection branches). In addition to the standard market rate payment system, Plastic Bank uses a digital payment system to provide bonuses on eligible material collections above their market rate. The bonuses are paid directly to the members' wallets in the PlasticBank® app through Plastic Bank tokens.
An individual who is over 18 years of age, registered through the PlasticBank® app, and gathers discarded plastic from the environment is a collection community member. Some are full-time members who have worked in informal waste collection for many years, while others work with us on a part-time basis to supplement other sources of income. Regardless of how much or how often our collection community members collect plastic, age-verified collection members can exchange plastic for additional income and social benefits at their local collection branch.
The plastic collected through our collection communities is delivered to our processing partners for reprocessing into Social Plastic® feedstock and reintegrated into products and packaging by partner organizations and brands.
Plastic Bank identifies vulnerable coastlines at the intersection of plastic pollution and poverty across the world that would benefit from plastic collection infrastructure. We then empower local entrepreneurs to establish collection branches in convenient locations and help gather collection communities together to collect discarded plastic from the environment. Community members exchange their collections at the branch for additional income and access to social, helping them to pave a path out of poverty and become changemakers by reducing plastic pollution. Collection members and collection branches are registered through the PlasticBank® app that records every transaction, enables traceable collection, secures income, and verifies reporting.