• How the world views plastic
  • Single-use
  • Disappears when we’re done using it
• What plastic actually does
  • Sticks around in landfills for millions of years before it degrades
  • Washes into oceans and disrupts ecosystems
  • Metro Manila: 1360 tons/day = 260 Full-Grown African Elephants/day

We are approaching the problem the way that the problem is approaching us

• People
  • Impacting the Environmental degradation
  • Negative health impacts
  • Opportunity lost
• Plastic Waste
  • Collecting, Sorting & Throwing Away…

• Plastic is a byproduct of crude oil
  • Industrial production produces plastic waste that reaches the hands of:
    • Retail consumers
      • Who have no collective agreeable incentive to recycle their plastics
        • This is because these consumers
          • Can not see the continued value of their plastic waste
    • Business consumers
      • Who do have a collective agreeable incentive to recycle their plastics
        • This is because these consumers have the
          • Centralized ability to take advantage of the monetary value of plastic waste
          • Ability to see the degradation of their plastic products over time

Insignificant

• One plastic bottle is insignificant
• Many plastic bottles becomes an emergent crisis
• Good: people like us

• B2B is established and effective
  • With industrial scale recycling, economies of scale come into play and the efficiency and lower price enable effective recycling to generate a profit
• But B2C is an entirely different animal that Plastech is seeking to tackle
  • Rather than the centralized and aggregated waste streams of businesses, consumers have a very decentralized waste plastic stream which can be difficult to tap into on a larger scale
  • This provides an opportunity for localized workers and facilities to process plastic waste on a scale that is able to make a real difference directly within communities while generating a profit for the various stakeholders involved