8 For-Purpose Waste Management Programs

Supercycled Balian Accessories to Job-Creating Companies

Recycling programs on their own do good for the environment and for society but these for-purpose waste management mechanisms go a step further. For instance, Bulky Bob's offers training to the unemployed and the under-employed, many of whom, after they go through that program, end up entering the permanent workforce. While Bulky Bob is based in the United Kingdom, Waste Concern is a social business based in Bangladesh that utilizes waste to create organic fertilizer for farmers in the country.

Other for-purpose waste management programs are a bit more flashy. For instance, Bombastic Plastix offers supercycled Balian accessories made of plastic bags. They make of the joke of calling their recycled products "garbage" -- and that's not a bad marketing hitch.

SCORE
4.7 out of 10
GENDER
50% Men50% Women
MARKETTop markets: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa
GENERATION
  • Gen Alpha
  • Gen Z (primary audience)
  • Millennial (primary audience)
  • Gen X (primary audience)
POPULARITY
Popularity 50%
Activity 83%
Freshness 8%

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