Alliance to End Plastic Waster partners with The Plastic Flamingo

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (Alliance) announces its first partnership and investment in the Philippines with local social enterprise, The Plastic Flamingo. The partnership, named Planks of Promise, will scale up collection of plastic waste in the Metro Manila area, and process the collected plastic waste in a new recycling facility - turning it into “eco-planks”. The Plastic Flamingo, a social enterprise launched in the Philippines in 2019, provides a unique solution to the plastic waste problem. In photo (L-R) are The Plastic Flamingo Development & Partnerships manager Louise Etchepare, CEO François Lesage, and former Operations & Logistics Manager Estelle Ouzineb with collection bins donated by ESE France. These bins are provided to partners in Metro Manila to collect their plastic waste, which is then collected and processed by The Plastic Flamingo. With the support of the Alliance, the Planks of Promise project hopes to scale up operations to 200 collection points by 2022.