Sustainable collection

72 73 “Collecting plastic puts food on the table, sends my children to school and helps me rent a home” SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT Recycling saves 75% on fossil fuels during production and another 5% during incineration. Plastic takes up to 1,000 years to degrade in a landfill 8 MILLION metric tonnes of plastic enters the earth’s oceans annually Plastic is made from petroleum. Recycled plastic products save on these raw materials and reduce CO2 emissions. 39 , 260 , 304 Number of equivalent plastic bottles** 1 , 090 , 564 Total volume of plastic collected: 2 , 302 Collectors engaged 74 Collection branches Metric tonnes of carbon dioxide prevented from entering the atmosphere 1 , 636 -70%