We are creating the first computer application for mobile devices (app) to be launched in Spain to encourage waste recycling.  RECICLOS is an innovative model that rewards sustainable incentives and also makes technology its main advantage. The citizen takes a picture, recycles as usual in the corresponding container and accumulates points to receive sustainable awards. The points accumulated by the people who participate in RECICLOS can be exchanged for discounts on public transport, bicycle rentals for a greater contribution in reducing the environmental impact, discounts at local shops, collective projects that improve the municipality through environmental and social collaborating entities or donations to NGOs.

This easy recycling routine is possible thanks to 3 innovative technologies: blockchain, barcode recognition and Geolocalization. Rewarding is secured by tokenisations of funds and the usage of smartcontracts in Ethereum. To avoid fraud RECICLOS has an API connection with Scandit, a software that reads the barcode and identify if the object is a beverage bottle or can. All the containers are geolocalized to verify that the packaging has been thrown.

For the private sector, we offer blockchain software to track materials, production processes and waste disposal, including the entire supply chain and destination. Our software offers full control of the entire production and / or commercial chain of a company. Through it, companies control the productive loss and waste generation in the processes, the applicable laws (municipal, state and federal), technical standards and the financial flow. This helps companies to comply with environmental legislation, to have more control, reduce administrative time and improve your bottom line. We bring reliability and speed to processes previously known only in paper and spreadsheets mismatched. We also developed a module focused on reverse logistics, in which we connect generators, carriers and final destinations to facilitate information exchange waste, ensuring that it returns to the productive sector as a raw material.

Jellycoin is designed in such a way that anyone that takes the (previously classified) residues to the recycling center is credited with tokens. These tokens can be used either to consume at the local shops or to pay local taxes. When the Jellycoins are transferred to the government as taxes they are burnt (otherwise, the monetary mass would tend to increase infinitely since the production of residues is a continuous flow). The government is willing to reduce its income in legal tender since, as a result of the implementation of Jellycoin, some of the expenditures related to waste management will be saved. Thus, Jellycoin not only encourages people to behave in a more environment-friendly fashion, but also strengthens the local trade circuits.

The fact that some activities are not considered profitable by the market doesn’t imply that they would be unable to produce valuable goods and services for the society,

The aim of the Circular Economy Zone is to take advantage of the valuable resources that society discards in order to transform them into useful products, and into a source of income for community members, This can be achieved through the implementation of a token that rewards those who contribute to recycling,

All the members of the community who collaborate in the recycling process (households separating at source, or collectors transporting waste to recycling centers) are paid by the system with a token that indicates the quantity of waste, in kilos, they’ve brought. The recycling centre uses the waste for the production and sale of “green inputs” for industries.

The token generated by the recycling centers is useful because it can be used for everyday transactions: households and collectors can use it to purchase products from local businesses, and even to pay local government taxes. Local businesses, once they received the tokens, can also pay a portion of their taxes with tokens or buy products from other businesses,

By accepting tokens as part of tax payment, the government forgoes income in legal tender. However, this is compensated by the savings that result from the drop of the outlays in legal tender that the current (inefficient) way of waste management entails. The system can be designed so that the government can improve its balance sheet, even when it forgoes a part of its revenues in legal tender,

Through this virtuous economic cycle involving waste management, the community products and a special purpose token, the behavior of the various actors are aligned in a way that benefits the environment, the local economy and the common good.

Also with this form of approach is possible to register and to measure the carbon footprint of the waste recovered from the city that joins the system.

Plastic Positive Projects
The projects that your subscription money goes into will include incentivised recycling for consumers and companies, encouraging everyone to make the change needed when disposing of plastics which are readily recyclable. They will also include projects by our partners to reduce plastic pollution in the environment for plastics which are recyclable and also hard to recycle plastics.

The Global Plastic Neutral Scheme will also support and operate “New Life Solutions” around the world to divert plastic (both recyclable and non-recyclable) in the future from ending up in landfill or the environment. In the case of non-recyclable plastic; turning that and other types of hard to recycle plastic into new, usable materials or products.

By enabling the exchange of plastic for money, items or Blockchain secured digital tokens, we reveal the value in plastic. This empowers recycling ecosystems around the world and stops the flow of plastic into our oceans. All while helping people living in poverty build better futures. The Plastic Bank creates social and environmental impact in areas with high levels of poverty and plastic pollution by turning plastic waste into a currency.

To do this, The Plastic Bank provides a consistent, above-market rate for plastic waste, thus incentivizing its collection. Individuals who gather our plastic can trade it for money, items or services. Social Plastic® is plastic that has been verified by Plastic Bank.

The Plastic Bank also provides the ability for local entrepreneurs to set up and operate a convenience store for the poor, in which plastic waste is the currency. Plastic collected through The Plastic Bank is recycled and sold at a premium as Social Plastic®. The value of Social Plastic® goes beyond the commodity price of plastic: a ladder of opportunity is created for the world’s poor by providing access to income, goods and services and plastic is kept out of the ocean.

In addition to using our recycled plastic, both people and companies have the ability to off-set their own plastic footprint.