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Transforming lives by transforming waste
Up-cycling Unilever’s factory plastic waste into emergency shelters
Innovation that tackles real-world challenges
The two main challenges we identified in the Southeast Asian emerging markets were:
- Many of these markets are in need of emergency shelters for slums and victims of natural disasters.
- Every month, there is mixed plastic waste produced by our factories in the Philippines.
So we asked the question...
What if we could leverage the technology innovations with start-ups to up-cycle plastic waste from Unilever factories to benefit communities in emerging markets?
Our solution
Leverage a new manufacturing technology to up-cycle and produce alternative building materials to produce emergency shelters from plastic waste.
Inspiring innovation through collaboration
Up-cycling hard plastic waste with ZERO environmental impact
Collaborative innovation that scales
As we combine the expertise of Unilever with the dynamic and pioneering technology of start-ups, we are able to solve real-world challenges at scale.
Year 1 and beyond
We manufactured 50 emergency shelters from Unilever factory plastic waste. This provided temporary shelter for up to 750 people (Reused).
We are able to multiply this impact by scaling the manufacturing technology across Southeast Asia with Unilever.
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