Prevented Ocean Plastic Africa is a commercial partnership between Bantam Materials, Bariq and infrastructure experts supporting the region. Together, we are collecting plastic from Swahili and North African coastal regions, including from around Nile. The program is building infrastructure to collect plastic from areas with little or no current recycling infrastructure for expert, food-safe processing in North Africa. The program was officially launched in Cairo where some of the world’s best recyclers came together to ratify and sign up to Prevented Ocean Plastic’s new Standards.
We hope that PREVENTED OCEAN PLASTIC AFRICA will have a good impact and will achieve the target. We have already recycled 15 billion bottles and we have a target of recycling 50 billion bottles by 2030. Year over year, we wanted to have more plastic diversion from Ocean within our recycling mix. We are pleased to be working with Bantam to create Prevented Ocean Plastic Africa. This will help to protect coastal regions and the Mediterranean Sea from plastic pollution. We’re looking forward to being able to scale up the program and show what’s possible while holding the work to the highest of standards.

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