Community Collection and Co-processing of Mixed Plastics in Calicut, India (PPRS) flexible packaging

flexible packaging

This project deals with a broad range of plastics

Rather than being discarded or openly burned

to the project partner’s warehouses

the model incentivizes responsible disposal and reduces plastic leakage into rivers and oceans

Community Collection and Co-processing of Mixed Plastics in Calicut, India (PPRS) flexible packagingThis social impact recycling project aims to create a circular economy, eliminate poverty and empower women by providing dignified jobs in rural and coastal areas in Kerala, India, where waste management infrastructure is limited. The majority of the population in this region is made up of low income communities. Single use sachets, which serve small, affordable quantities of day to day products, play an important role in the local economy. But after