Plastic Bag Recycling

A social impact startup out of Washington, DC.

What started as an eco-friendly hustle to recycle plastic film for my building has turned into a social impact business. We know plastic bags are bad for the environment. If we can't get rid of them, we might as well make it easy for ourselves—and for everyone—to recycle them.

Our mission

Plastic bag recycling is for the eco-conscious. We are taking it mainstream.

Our mission is to make plastic bag recycling easy and convenient for every DC resident.

Plastic film keeps accumulating, from shipping envelopes to Amazon bubble pads and grocery bags. Reducing and Reusing are the ideal solutions, but it's hard to stop using all types of plastic film. Unfortunately normal recycling companies don't recycle plastic bags because they are hard to recycle. The bags clog the gears of recycling machines.

But recycling plastic bags is possible. It only requires different, dedicated equipment. The missing piece of the puzzle has been large-scale collection. Right now in the District, you must take your plastic bags to specific grocery stores for recycling. It's inconvenient and most people don't do it. We will make it convenient—and scalable—by organizing collection where people live and work. Then we transport the bags to a dedicated recycling facility in Virginia.