Ocean Plastic NGOs -Upcycling –Markets

Regional Public-Private Partnerships are the key to associate NGOs’ Ocean Plastic Feedstock, Upcycling, and Markets.

Abstract

Plastic Harvest & Upcycle (PHU) is an incubator and development partner of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for plastic collection (“harvest”) and upcycling ventures.  Its current focus is to develop processing plants throughout Southeast Asia, where plastic pollution contaminates the Ocean. This global environmental crisis necessitates dynamic collective action.

PHU has developed a technology and manufacturing process to absorb all types of plastic “as is”. The feedstock comes from NGOs collecting plastics from the Ocean, waterways, and open nature. Additional feedstock is generated by the local informal economy.

PHU forms business ventures with local entrepreneurs to operate the upcycling plants. The plants’ manufacturing output includes: consumer products as designed and ordered at no charge by the harvesting NGOs; urban equipment as part of the PPPs’ procurement agreements with the local governments; weatherproof construction materials, commercial and outdoor furniture for the area’s real estate developers.

Background

SE Asia is one of the largest sources of plastic pollution in the Ocean. Yet, even when waste management is optimized with recycling separation, only the cleanest of the high-value plastics are actually recycled.  Most plastic will be incinerated or shipped away to landfills -increasing greenhouse gases (GHG). Too often, it will be dumped in waterways, ending in the Ocean.

National and local governments acknowledge the dire consequences of the plastic crisis on their citizens’ health and the various impacts on their economies, including tourism and fishing.

“Plastic Harvest & Upcycle” (PHU) is a dynamic public-private partnership solution to these environmental and political pressures, harnessing local entrepreneurship and manufacturing innovations to deliver on-going cleanup and sequestration of plastic waste. The harvest generates supplemental income to the local informal economy, the upcycling plants create jobs and new careers, and the upcycled products supply the local urban development.

PHU’s operating and financial model incentivizes the capture of all plastics at the source, which minimizes the generation of microplastics, the world’s newest global threat.

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Ocean Plastic NGOs -Feedstock Upcycling –Markets

Philip Lajaunie