Hamburg, Germany
2019
2019
WILDPLASTIC® was founded in 2019 with the goal to clean the environment from plastic waste. In cooperation with organizations in countries without sufficient waste management systems, the start-up works globally to collect wild plastic from the environment. In spring 2019, WILDPLASTIC® started selling the first trash bag made of recycled wild plastic, the WILDBAG. Their second product, mailingbags made of WILDPLASTIC® launched in summer 2023.
The wild plastic gets collected by hand from streets, nature, dump sites and illegal landfills and is then sorted and recycled into high quality granules. Waste collectors and sorters in countries such as India, Indonesia or Sierra Leone earn a secured wage and work under good working conditions, combining environmental conservation with economic development.
WILDPLASTIC® fights for a plastic-free planet. Its mission: to recover wild plastic and bring it back into the recycling cycle to reduce pollution and create a better world for future generations.
Germany alone produces up to 21 million tons of plastic a year. Only 20% of it is being recycled, and more than 80% of the plastic produced is made of virgin plastic. Plastic pollution is everywhere. About 5 billion tons of plastic are spread worldwide and can be found in the environment, lakes, and oceans. The task of cleaning the planet from plastic is monumental and requires all the help it can get. WILDPLASTIC® has taken on the challenge and has declared the company’s goal to free the environment from plastic waste.
Conventional production processes were reliant on the addition of virgin plastic to create new plastic products. WILDPLASTIC® has developed a new solution: a process that creates new plastic products from recycled wild plastic. Bright colors and unusual prints make WILDPLASTIC® trash bags and mailing bags a real eye-catcher and add to successful marketing.
Wildplastic has been a steward-owned company from the start - to save our mission and to create transparency and trust for our employees, partners, and consumers. - Nadia Boegli, co-founder
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