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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…

8 min readApr 26, 2024

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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.

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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

18 min readOct 20, 2022

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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.

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We Found @YourPlasticHere: Publishing #SingleUsePlastic data on Twitter

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

6 min readJun 8, 2022

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We Found @YourPlasticHere: Publishing #SingleUsePlastic data on Twitter

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Measuring density of plastic bottle waste

Using the Wastebase Audit Areas feature

5 min readJan 24, 2022

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Measuring density of plastic bottle waste

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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…

8 min readJan 24, 2022

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Why data is vital in creating a circular economy for plastic

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Building a digital platform to tackle the global plastic waste crisis

Martin Pllu, October 2021

14 min readOct 29, 2021

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Building a digital platform to tackle the global plastic waste crisis

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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

7 min readJun 16, 2021

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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.

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Digitally enabling the circular economy in Sub-Saharan Africa

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

9 min readMay 7, 2021

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Map showing Mozambique and its major rivers

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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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