This startup is changing the game by empowering the most important element in the recycling chain: informal waste collectors. And this is how they do it ... With Plastics For Change Foundation.
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00:03When I was in that house, I had a hard time raising a healthy child.
00:04I had to take care of him.
00:05That girl was also raising a child.
00:06And raising a child in this house made me very happy.
00:07In this house, we are Ram and Divi.
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00:52Our mission is to work with women like Nagamma and provide them a fair price for the plastic that they collect from the environment.
01:22I am very happy.
01:32All of the plastic then gets washed, cleaned and recycled, which can then be plugged into the manufacturing process of global brands.
01:53India alone is home to almost 4 million collectors, a majority of them that live under $2 a day.
02:02Without them, the entire waste management industry would collapse in South India.
02:08In 2022 alone, we have collected and removed a little over 8,000 metric tons of plastic from the environment.
02:15That's equivalent to about 500 shipping containers, about 20 feet each.
02:46I feel very proud that I am working for the environment.
02:54I feel very proud that I am working for the environment.
02:58I feel very proud that I am working for the environment.
03:02I feel very proud that I am working for the environment.