Project partners
Ocean Plastic Forum
Ocean Plastic Forum (OPF) is a non-profit association with members from across the ocean plastic value chain, including interest organizations, NGOs, universities, and a range of companies.
The aim of OPF is to solve the issue of plastic pollution in our oceans and support the circular economy of ocean plastic. OPF is the project secretariat for value chain collaboration and project-based partnerships, where we bring together businesses, researchers, public authorities, and organizations to collect ocean-bound plastic waste and recycle it as high in the value chain as possible. OPF also organizes conferences/seminars etc. assembling relevant stakeholders to collaborate on projects and share knowledge for a cleaner ocean.
Learn more at www.oceanplasticforum.dk
Kabadiwalla Connect
Kabadiwalla Connect (KC) is a social enterprise working to expedite the holistic integration of the informal waste sector – to support recycling and circular economy targets of cities in the Global South.
KC helps leverage existing informal waste infrastructure in the collection and processing of post-consumer waste. Using ICT and IoT based technology, KC integrates informal actors into the formal waste management system; to deliver socially just, low-carbon and cost-effective waste management solutions.
Kabadiwalla Connect was founded in Chennai, India in 2016 on the basis of the results from research projects on the informal sector funded by World Economic Forum and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. Today Kabadiwalla Connect works with private and public organisations in Europe and Asia on positively impacting the global waste and plastic challenges through research projects, strategic supply chain data, and practical sourcing of secondary raw materials.
Learn more at www.kabadiwallaconnect.in
GLECO A/S
Founded in 1988, GLECO specializes in bags, sacks, and tailor-made PP(Polypropylene) Big Bags / FIBC (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container).
Products are produced at our own modern production facility in China, or sourced from factories in India or Turkey. Delivered directly to clients, or taken to our large warehouse in Slangerup, Denmark. Our clients’ high demands for superior quality tailor made products, makes GLECO an international supplier of industrial packaging material worldwide.
Our end users work with in food, pharma, agriculture, chemicals, minerals, and waste management. Their need for more intelligent, sustainable and environmentally oriented packaging solutions are in perfect line with the strategy of GLECO working towards supplying bags with more than 30% rPP(recycled pp pellets).
Learn more at www.gleco.dk
Local community
Waste pickers
Local waste pickers collect waste from near-coastal streets, waste bins and households. In the FBBB project, selected and trained waste pickers will also manage and collect waste from the floating river barrier. Each waste picker has learned which types of waste have value, and do the first rough sorting of the waste before delivering to scrap shops.
Kabadiwallas (scrap shops)
Kabadiwallas, or small scrap shops, buys, stores and segregates the recyclable materials that the waste pickers deliver to them. They do minimal or no processing other than segregation of the material before selling it onwards for bailing and later recycling. There are typically many such Kabadiwallas in a single city. Click below to meet one of the Kabadiwallas we are partnering with in the project.
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