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Incentivising a circular economy

How Wastebase’s social premium model connects donors with both social and environmental impacts while driving local circular economies for…

Apr 26

An illustrated journey of waste collection in the global south. Unwaste.io pays a social premium to waste pickers to incentivise collection of plastic waste. Community organisations are working hard to ensure that more useful household items are made from this reprocessed plastic.

Apr 26

A fairer deal for waste pickers

How we’re trialling a digital approach to eliminate fraud and exploitation of low income waste collectors in the global south

Oct 20, 2022

A man stands in front of four people who are sitting in chairs outside a small breezeblock house with a rough corrugated iron verandah. The standing man is speaking and pointing to a display board.

Oct 20, 2022

We Found @YourPlasticHere: Publishing #SingleUsePlastic data on Twitter

How we’re channelling data through social media to hold FMCG producers to global best practice

Jun 8, 2022

We Found @YourPlasticHere: Publishing #SingleUsePlastic data on Twitter

Jun 8, 2022

Measuring density of plastic bottle waste

Using the Wastebase Audit Areas feature

Jan 24, 2022

Measuring density of plastic bottle waste

Jan 24, 2022

Why data is vital in creating a circular economy for plastic

At Unwaste.io, we take data very seriously. Why? Because we believe that data has a big role to play in the practical adoption of Extended…

Jan 24, 2022

Why data is vital in creating a circular economy for plastic

Jan 24, 2022

Building a digital platform to tackle the global plastic waste crisis

Martin Pllu, October 2021

Oct 29, 2021

Building a digital platform to tackle the global plastic waste crisis

Oct 29, 2021

Estimating ‘Bottles per Hectare’ in an African City

How our plastic waste tracking platform helped calculate the volume of single-use plastic bottles discarded every day in Maputo

Jun 16, 2021

Two men standing in a park, looking down at a collection of plastic bottles. The bottles have been sorted by type and laid in groups on the ground.

Jun 16, 2021

Digitally enabling the circular economy in Sub-Saharan Africa

How the Wastebase app is helping Mozambique’s Repensar Environmental Cooperative track plastic waste

May 7, 2021

Map showing Mozambique and its major rivers

May 7, 2021

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Unwaste.io aims to create a cloud platform to connect everyone who can help reduce plastic waste entering our planet’s environment.

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