Entrepreneurship & Incubation
Building viable recycling businesses, led by local entrepreneurs.
Supporting local changemakers by strengthening their ability to design, launch and sustain recycling initiatives suited to their own territories.
A programme built for local entrepreneurs and incubators, social enterprises, early-stage recyclers and informal waste workers moving into the formal economy.
Programme objectives
01
Understand your market
Understand plastic waste streams, recycling processes and operational constraints in order to make informed decisions.
02
Build technical skills
Structuring the work: collection, processing, maintenance, safety and day-to-day operations.
03
Build a viable model
Strengthen business models, governance and local partnerships for long-term durability.
04
Take root in your territory
Connect entrepreneurs with municipalities, waste pickers, communities and institutions so projects sit inside their own ecosystem.
Our tools to get projects moving
Open-source training
Access to the Plastic Odyssey Academy e-learning platform, to technical resources and to methods tested in the field.
Global community
A connection to the global network of more than 500 recycling entrepreneurs, to share experience, challenges and solutions.
Project incubation
Structured support for recycling initiatives, in partnership with local incubators and ecosystem players.
The Factory project
Containerized, low-tech recycling units as concrete tools to grow entrepreneurial projects, create formal jobs and structure local value chains.
Our projects
A look at the impact projects we run locally under the Entrepreneurship & Incubation programme led by Plastic Odyssey Academy.
Would you like to support us financially, or build a project in your own territory?
"Make Sense" Circular Economy Academy
We support entrepreneurs in launching recycling hubs across the country and train 150 university students to become Youth for Future ambassadors, running concrete awareness and action projects in their own areas.
Awareness
& Impact Collection
Before recycling systems can emerge, communities need to understand the problem, see solutions in action, and organise to collect plastic in a structured way.
Training
& Experimentation
Our FabLabs and Recycling Schools in the field host students, technicians and trainers so they master every step of plastic recycling, from raw material to finished product.