Annual Reports

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July 22, 2023
Annual Report 2023

Highlights:

 

  • Launching the Responsible Sourcing Initiative, a multi-year program that addresses human rights issues in plastics recycling supply chains and improves livelihoods for informal waste workers.
  • Releasing the award-winning Plastics Circularity Investment Tracker, a tool to track the scale of private investments into the plastics circular economy globally.
  • Forging new and existing partnerships by joining hands with Lonely Whale to convene NextWave Plastics and building on our Urban Ocean® program with new cities onboarded.
  • Expanding the scope of data and geographical coverage of our GHG calculator, PLACES, to better understand the climate impact of plastic waste in South and Southeast Asia.

July 22, 2022
Annual Report 2022

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March 21, 2021
Annual Report 2021

Highlights:

 

  • Launching the Plastic Lifecycle Assessment Calculator for the Environment and Society (PLACES). The first of its kind in Asia, the calculator allows users to quantify the climate change and other environmental benefits of plastics recycling. 
  • Advancing The Incubation Network’s Leakage and Livelihoods and Equality in Plastics Circularity, to ensure better livelihoods and social protection for waste workers, especially women.
  • Publishing Circularity Assessment Protocol (CAP) reports for five cities in Southeast Asia and Latin America as part of the Urban Ocean program to inform decision-makers about community-level data on plastic usage and management.
  • Collaborating on a research paper that measures the return on investment of investing in behavior change to boost recycling rates.
  • Initiating the Closing the Data Gap Challenge with the Alliance to End Plastic Waste to support research addressing data gaps in municipal solid waste and plastic waste value chains in South and Southeast Asia.

July 22, 2020
Annual Report 2020

Highlights:

 

  • Expanding The Incubation Network to roughly 50 entrepreneurial support organizations that are catalyzing support to hundreds of ventures and innovators working to address plastic pollution in their communities. 
  • Continuing The Incubation Network’s leading accelerator programs including the Plastics Data Challenge, yielding three Challenge finalists,  which have since further advanced their data-driven waste management and refill solutions in Indonesia and India. 
  • Progressing on the Urban Ocean program with its first cohort cities across South and Southeast Asia and in Latin America to complete a gap assessment to better understand the needs of local waste management systems and to ensure a resilient recovery from COVID-19.

July 22, 2019
Annual Report 2019 & 2020 Progress Report

Highlights:

 

  • Publicly introducing The Circulate Initiative and announcing The Incubation Network’s initial members at the Our Ocean Conference.
  • The Incubation Network launching its first global program, the Plastics Data Challenge.
  • Establishing The Impact Metrics Working Group with over 20 members from various sectors.
  • Launching the Urban Ocean program in partnership with Ocean Conservancy and the Global Resilient Cities Network.
  • The Incubation Network organizing the Circular Innovation Jam, a virtual ideation event across five countries.