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57% WOMEN
50% RECEIVE MORE INCOME
80% HOUSEHOLD PARTNERS
Although clean-up activities offer mitigation, as well as providing a tool for awareness, they are not an effective strategy for alleviating the plastic leakage problem. TONTOTON’s solution aims to both prevent plastic entering the environment through source-reduction as well as removing coastal deposition. Sorting of waste at a household level is an effective technique for reducing leakage.
Together with PET bottles and Styrofoam, we identified that the majority of mismanaged waste is associated with households due to ineffective solid waste management systems. TONTOTON’s household partner project stops this leakage at the source as well as encourages reduced consumption of these materials. Key villages in Vietnam and Cambodia are lacking any formal waste management at all, so without this solution the plastic would be discarded into the environment or burnt outside the houses.
200
household partners in Cambodia
2500
household partners in Vietnam
Little girl running on a beach of
Hon Son Island, January 2020
Hon Son Island, January 2020
Waste Manager of Hon Son Island.
discussing with TONTOTON Team.
The co-processing of waste has been recognized as a recovery operation under EU legislation
Plastic waste in the pre-processing
phase, prepared for shredding
INSEE Cement Plant, Hon Chong Vietnam
Waste burned to be used as Alternative Fuel
& Raw Materials (ashes reused in cement).
TONTOTON’s Material Recovery Facility (MRF), situated in the heart of the polluted coastal city of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. The first of its kind in the country – plastic is either upcycled, recycled or utilised as an alternative energy source for a fully circular solution. TONTOTON’s collectors remove all mismanaged plastic from the environment, leaving nothing behind. Waste is brought the MRF for segregation into different sorting lines where HDPE, LDPE, PP and PE in good condition are reformed into new products through heat-processing techniques, PET is directed to a bottle-to-bottle factory, and degraded plastic is sent for co-processing.
The aim of upcycling the non-recyclable plastic is to support TONTOTON collectors by providing housing materials such as new durable, UV resistant roofs and walls. We will also create full traditional houses using low-value material for community development programs. Transforming polluted villages and supporting the people most affected by the plastic, now in a positive way.
All plastic waste is removed from the environment, sorted, and treated.
All plastic waste is utilised for next life solutions, avoiding landfill.
An Phu Ward, Thu Duc City, HCMC, Vietnam
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