Process Steps Demo – BIONIC_Work

Before we gather a single piece of plastic, we start by identifying a coastline in need. Unfortunately, in today’s world, there’s no shortage of communities that need help cleaning and maintaining their coasts. We don’t just parachute in and start operating, but first gain community support for local clean ups and recycling efforts, because a key component of ridding our oceans of plastic is to divert it before it even gets there. Then we start building infrastructure. That can be as simple as recycling drop-off points, and as sophisticated as a full sorting and shredding facility. In short, we plan, build, and operate waste management services in places where there weren’t any. That means we’re often teaching communities how to use those services, because they’ve never had them before.

After we get the community on board and our systems in place, we can finally start collecting. Our collection process is broken into three distinct streams: self-serve recycling stations, direct pick up from businesses, and coastal clean ups. The recycling stations and the commercial collections are serviced directly by our employees, but clean ups are often a communal affair. We engage school groups, non-profits, friends, family members, and anyone else who’s interested in clean oceans to comb beaches and coastlines for wayward bits of waste. To manufacture BIONIC products, we need PET (plastic soda bottles, etc) and HDPE (milk jugs and the like), but we don’t limit our collecting to the things that we can personally use. We realized early on that this was an all or nothing process; we couldn’t just take the stuff we wanted and leave the rest behind. So anything recyclable – all plastics, glass, terapaks, etc – is collected, sorted, and sent somewhere it can be used.

One of the most frequently overlooked components of our supply chain is transport. We’re collecting in some very remote corners of the world, and the recovered plastics need to eventually make it to a processing facility to realize their full potential. When it’s a far-flung beach clean up, that might mean using boats and 4-wheelers, but day to day, we run a well-oiled network of local trucking routes. We are the recycling truck, from pick-up to processing.

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