Stopping Plastic Waste For Everyone

A major environmental problem

Single-use disposable plastic sachets are one of the world's most problematic forms of plastic packaging. Companies like Unilever, P&G and L'Oréal use them extensively to sell single doses of personal care products like shampoo, but they cannot be recycled. They wash into waterways and rivers and are a primary cause of ocean microplastic.

The sachet problem is well documented but little is changing (The Guardian, Gaia, Bloomberg, Greenpeace...).

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With around 1 trillion plastic sachets used every year and set to double by 2030, the need for a solution is pressing.

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Developing a solution

Beat The Sachet worked with local communities to develop a reuse system suitable for all consumers. So far as we know, it's the only reuse solution designed with and for marginally employed communities.

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It worked with an NGO partner in India to test the concept. The pilot ran for over a year, stopped 5000 sachets/month, and participants were very enthusiastic.

In addition to preventing plastic waste, the solution brings local employment and female empowerment with training for new job roles for women.

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Growing recognition

India Plastics Pact highlighted the solution’s promising potential to scale with low-income consumers in rural and urban areas, UNNATI Waste Management Services featured it for its role supporting female empowerment with training and new roles for women. Also, it was selected as one of the best ways to prevent plastic waste in India by the UK’s Global Business Innovation Programme.

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The CEO of Zilla Parishad, Aurangabad and UK Government Minister Sir Stephen Timms have both written letters of endorsement, encouraging people and organisations to help. Both letters available on request.

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We’re raising funds to improve and expand this pilot so it works across more product categories, stops over a million items of single use plastic packaging a year across an initial target of ten villages, and demonstrates a scalable solution that could be rolled out more broadly.

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