We are a legally registered Non-Governmental Organization (N.G.O.) in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. We aim to provide a platform for the inspiration and empowerment of women and beyond, by offering seed money and technical and business training to build their own plastic waste reprocessing plant and manage it as a social enterprise.
Enabling Ghanaian Women Entrepreneurs to play a key role in cashing in on the plastic waste trash of Ghana for the benefit of their own communities.
Our Purpose in Practice
Our Vision
All plastic packaging in Ghana will be separately collected for recycling and communities will cash in the maximum value to invest for their sustainable future. Plastic waste will be re-processed into products of use for the development of underprivileged communities, fair employment opportunities will be created, and women entrepreneurs will be key players in this progress.
Plastic Collective is proud to announce the registration of the ASASE Foundation’s community-based plastic collection and recycling project under the Verra’s Plastic Waste Reduction Standard. Plastic Collective is the advisory partner to this exemplar project which is leading the charge to address the plastic pollution crisis in Ghana. The ASASE project was also selected for inclusion in the first ever Plastic Waste Reduction-linked Bond issued by the World Bank in partnership with Plastic Collective and Citibank in January 2024.
The project’s purpose is to start commercial scale recycling plants of 2000T/year waste reprocessing as social enterprises in communities where plastic pollution is most severe, and empower women entrepreneurs to build their own plastic waste management businesses as a sustainable source of income and employment.