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31/05/2024

🎉 We’ve just hit a milestone: We've tracked over 700 million kg of materials on our blockchain-enabled platform!

This represents 0.08% of the plastic globally, but every bit counts in our journey towards a fully transparent circular economy. Data is crucial for advancing circular economies, and we are determined to keep pushing the boundaries, tracking more to enhance visibility and transparency around material flows. 🌏

A huge thank you to our amazing partners who share our vision and commitment 🤝♻️ We keep on going!

Plastic Fischer Tide Ocean Material Wildplastic Carbon United Nations Development Programme - UNDP to Prevent Waste

27/03/2024

Material traceability expansion in Argentina 🇦🇷

Empower.eco's partnership with Delterra is in full swing as Delterra has formed a partnership with Conexión Reciclado to implement Empower’s material traceability tool for the value chain of post-consumer packaging waste in Argentina.

In 2024, the project aims to trace 30.000 tons of recycled materials from more than 30 actors in the circular economy in all regions of Argentina, which includes municipalities, cooperatives of urban recoverers, collectors and recycling industries. This initiative benefits the entire chain by promoting an increase in the recycling rate, sponsoring investments and incentives, and making processes transparent and efficient with the help of Empower traceability software.

27/03/2024

Material traceability expansion update from Argentina 🇦🇷 Empower.eco's partnership with Delterra is in full swing as Delterra has formed a partnership with Conexión Reciclado to implement Empower’s material traceability tool for the value chain of post-consumer packaging waste in Argentina.

In 2024, the project aims to trace 30.000 tons of recycled materials from more than 30 actors in the circular economy in all regions of Argentina, which includes municipalities, cooperatives of urban recoverers, collectors and recycling industries. This initiative benefits the entire chain by promoting an increase in the recycling rate, making processes transparent and sponsoring investments and incentives. For the different actors, the Empower software offers information to improve the productivity and management of their operations.
Discover Delterra: HERE
Discover Conexionreciclado: HERE

Empower generates value out of plastic waste - enabling collectors, recyclers, brands and consumers to make a real impact on the environment.

15/03/2024

Behind every successful impact, there’s a story. 🌟

But let the clients do the talking! Discover how our Plastic Credits are making waves in e-commerce together with Verdn

08/03/2024

🌎After over a year of negotiations, a provisional agreement on packaging and packaging waste regulation has been reached. 📦 This marks a crucial step towards our goal of establishing a , a priority for Empower.eco.

👉Find the key highlights in the slides

This is a provisional agreement pending formal adoption. A step towards the right direction in paving the way for more efficient resource management and with environmental responsibility as a collective priority. ♻️

Empower.eco can help you navigate and prepare for the upcoming regulations with our vast network in the plastic ecosystem and traceability tools for future-proof transparency.

📩 Reach out at [email protected]

05/03/2024

🎉Indias Barn inaugurates yet another Empower.eco collection point in India - in the Varsai village.

Indias Barn (IB) and Children's Future India’s (CFI) continue their longstanding commitment to education sponsorship across Maharashtra's rural, urban, and tribal regions.

The facilities have enabled waste management based on a collection and reward system. Great to see Empower.eco collection points on the path to enabling employment and social mobility within communities. Exciting progress towards a sustainable future. ♻️

14/11/2023

🇸🇹WE HAVE A WASTE CHALLENGE HERE 👀

This week, Empower.eco is in São Tomé and Príncipe, conducting a feasibility study for a digital waste collection and material traceability system with the UNDP.

Plastic is becoming an acute issue in STP for the small population of the country:

🌴The tropical rainforest of Sao Tome and Principe is second among Africa’s 75 forests in terms of importance for bird conservation.

🌎As the second smallest African country, it is one of the most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate change because of its unique geographical characteristics, including the fragility of its ecosystems and low level of socio-economic development.

🌊The entire population is considered 'coastal,' and because of steep topography and seasonally high rainfall, any mismanaged plastic waste could potentially enter the marine environment.

We are here to understand the local situation and see how we can implement Empower.eco incentive system to create better conditions for informal workers and to get plastic out of the environment and put it in the right place - to be recycled!

10/11/2023

🇹🇿Empower is collaborating with the coolest organisations such as Environmental Conservation Community of Tanzania (ECCT) ecct_org ! All in an effort to incentivise and improve plastic waste pollution in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. They’re hosting monthly beach clean-ups in collaboration with Empower and other local clean-up organisations. Check out the snaps from the cleanups & testimonials about the plastic pollution effects & plastic credit rollin cleaning it up.

Want to connect with organisations like ECCT and become a verified change-maker? Reach out to us :)

02/11/2023

"Plastic waste is not just an environmental problem; it is also a human problem." - shares Johnson, one of the from Maximus Recycling

💪Maximus Recycling Solutions uses innovative technology to solve the environmental challenges in their host communities. Through their plastic collection hubs, they offer cash incentives in exchange for plastic waste. Maximus has taken on the digitizations of their plastic volumes with Empower’s platform with great eagerness and is benefitting from both the digital transformation of their inventory as well as the Plastic Credit scheme, which encourages larger volumes of plastic to be recovered from and avoided ending up in nature in their community in Nigeria.

Have a glimpse into Maximus Recycling work, plastic waste consequences on the community, and the efforts to make it more circular. 💚

Reach out to us if you want an introduction to Maximus Recycling 💌

25/10/2023

For several years already, Empower has been collaborating with Indias Barn and Children's Future India (CFI) in India to help run plastic eradication programmes.

Due to the success of plastic waste collection centres initially piloted, on the 18th of Oct 2023 CFI/IBN/Empower established its 3rd collection point in the village Rave. 🎉♻️🥳

📣Read the successful plastic collection implementation stories in the Indian villages of Hamarapur and Kharpada. See the stories of our users and - Anisha, Sarika and Madhuri by NRK here: https://www.nrk.no/det-verdifulle-plastsoppelet-1.15960407

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Empower connects global sponsors, brands and producers with collection organisations building waste collection infrastructure all around the world. Empowering your business to take positive action on plastic waste while also making a social impact. ♻️

13/10/2023

🇮🇩Indonesia is the biggest archipelago in the world with at least 13500 islands. Meaning that marine debris has become an increasingly important internal problem.

Empower collaborates with OceanKita in several locations in Indonesia, to incentivise the collection and recovery of marine and riverway plastic debris.

🌊OceanKita uses an innovative trawl net to carry plastic-fishing operations offshore of remote islands and incentivize fishermen communities to also collect floating waste in their environment.

OceanKita collection community shares insights on how plastic pollution affects the local community at Bintang Mangrove, Surabaya in a carrousel post 👉

Want to support our and become a change-maker? Take positive action on plastic waste and reach out to Empower today! 💪

💌[email protected]

28/09/2023

Read up on plastic and what it is, what happens, what technologies exists:

https://www.recycledplastic.com/