Problem:

Our oceans are being filled by plastic waste.

Over 8 million metric tons of plastic are entering the oceans of the world every year.

Plastic is causing a massive natural disaster. The use of plastic is soaring from 300 million tons in 2014 to over 1124 tons by 2050¹.

In developing countries the waste management systems are not able to cope with the increased use of plastic is. A major part of the plastic is transported to the oceans by rivers in these countries.

Solution:

Concentrate and collect waste plastic from rivers and use it for energy and recycled raw material.

The plastic is spread to the nature by hundreds of millions of people. The littered area covers millions of square kilometers and tens of thousands of kilometers of river banks. Once the trash enters the oceans it is spread to an even larger area.

On its way from land to the ocean a major part of the plastic spends a passing moment relatively concentrated in rivers².

Riverrecycle.com has developed a technology to collect the plastic and other solid particles from the rivers and thereby reduce the amount of waste entering the oceans.

With our partners we are able to supply the necessary solutions to concentrate, collect and recycle the plastic where applicable, and to turn the remaining solid particles into energy. The aim is to create local income and employment by making it logistically efficient to recycle waste. By creating a local ecosystem able to derive value from collected waste, Riverrecycle is likely to make many other forms of waste collection financially feasible.