Social and Environmental Sustainability

We will build a local coalition of individuals, researchers, organizations, businesses and policymakers to​

• Mobilize and maximize trust, power and influence ​
• Share responsibility and accountability ​
• Coordinate planning, strategy and action ​
• Pool resources and expertise; and ​
• Minimize duplication of effort ​

at the sweet spot of sustaining both plastics use and refugee settlement in the community through empowerment and capacity building where plastic waste is turned into useful products as the supply chain is transformed into an open source/access symbiotic ecosystem.​

One immediate solution is by catalysing an ecosystem or network of recycling businesses such as Precious Plastic Melbourne and Replas on one hand and refugees playing the roles of entrepreneurs/employees on the other. These businesses offer training opportunities to anyone who is interested to learn specialist skills in handling plastic waste, albeit those that meet strict specifications currently, and machining them into new and useful products such outdoor furniture to be installed on public parks.  Precious Plastic even offer business toolkits that can help someone to learn everything from business planning to workplace calculation beside a whole body of knowledge of how-to's.