About Plastic Bank

We built an economy around plastic.

A Plastic Bank collection member in Egypt holding a plastic bottle in one hand and the cash he exchanged it for in the other

If plastic were as valuable as diamonds, would anyone throw it away?

Plastic reaches the environment through the places least able to collect it. The same places where money is hardest to come by. Two problems, one cause.

Nobody walks past money on the pavement. They walk past plastic because nobody made it worth stopping for.

So we did.

How Plastic Bank works.

Asnaini, a Plastic Bank collection member in Indonesia, holding a gathered bottle in one hand and the income she was paid for it in the other

It's not charity. It's an exchange.

Nothing here is donated. Brands pay for the collection and for the material it produces, collectors are paid for what they gather, and so is everyone in between.

That's how we built the world's largest bottle deposit program.

Since 2013

10.2B+bottles exchanged for extra income.

72,763collectors

205.7M kgplastic collected