Buy Social Plastic™ feedstock
Integrate recycled ocean-bound plastic with traceable impact into your products or packaging and support plastic collection communities.
Join the Social Recycling movement
Our traceable solutions are helping businesses to address the plastic crisis.
Community members
Plastic stopped
Recycling communities*Calculated from our monthly collection rate in January 2023
Support collection communities
Plastic pollution and poverty are intertwined. Plastic Bank empowers communities to use plastic waste as currency for access to secure income and life-improving benefits. This incentivizes collection, helps to alleviate poverty, and gives new life to old plastic for reintegration into products and packaging.
We call this Social Recycling, and you can be part of it!
Here’s how you can create change with Social Plastic™
Social Plastic™ is reprocessed ocean-bound plastic feedstock that is transformed and reintroduced into the global supply chain, demonstrating environmental, social, and economic impact.
Define your recycling goal
Consult with an expert to determine how to progress the utilization of ocean-bound recycled plastic in your value chain.
Select the feedstock you need
Social Plastic™ feedstock is available in PET, PP, HDPE and LDPE material types, and is offered as flakes or pellets.
Celebrate your journey
Share your progress through a host of communication assets to educate, engage, and empower your consumers.
Customers are looking for brands making a difference
When it comes to brands with purpose, consumers are*:
- 4xmore likely to purchase
- 4.1xmore likely to trust
- 4.5xmore likely to champion
- 6xmore likely to protect
Natreve x Plastic Bank
Watch video*2020 Zeno Strength of Purpose | (Base 8000 consumers; US, CAN, UK, FRA, CHI, IND, SING, MY)
Why businesses choose to drive impact with us
Our approach and solution to poverty and pollution is trusted by partners globally for over a decade.
Leading the industry in results
106,217,405 kilograms of plastic stopped so far with our partners demonstrates that Social Recycling for environmental impact works.
Empowering communities to thrive
42,458 members from 590 collection communities have been able to access income and life-improving benefits.
Customizable partnerships
Choose or customize a partnership option to suit your company’s business and size, so you can stop ocean plastic and alleviate poverty your way.
Enabling audit-ready traceability
Our proprietary blockchain platform builds trust through transparency, traceability, and scalability. Letting you rest easy knowing your impact is real.
Storytelling tools
Gain access to a repository of brand assets, images, videos, social media templates, and more to help consumers engage and take action.
Claim Authenticity
Our claims are backed by our blockchain-based technology to help communicate your impact with authenticity to consumers.
Social Plastic™ in the global economy
“SC Johnson entered into a Founding Partnership with Plastic Bank in 2018 focused on creating regenerative impact in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Brazil.
“Henkel was the first major global consumer goods company to collaborate with Plastic Bank in 2017. Henkel’s consumer business units in Laundry & Home Care and Beauty Care have launched product packaging made with Social Plastic® feedstock.
“Carton Pack is the first and only fruit and vegetable manufacturer in Europe to offer packaging made with 100% Social Plastic® feedstock.
Our partners are empowering Social Recycling with us
