It started with a demand
I DEMAND CORPORATIONS HELP STOP OCEAN PLASTIC.
The work that grew from that demand still runs today across coastal communities in Indonesia, the Philippines, Egypt, and beyond.
Here’s the story.
It took one line.
A small team in Vancouver wrote one line and asked the internet to sign. Twenty-one months later, more than a million had.
I DEMAND CORPORATIONS HELP STOP OCEAN PLASTIC | Signatures: Mar 2014 → Dec 2015
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The gathering
The demand needed an answer. Plastic Bank was the solution that had to come into being — built to stop the plastic before it reaches the water.
Over 9.8 billion bottles gathered since. And still gathering.
This time, we are gathering humanity
The first movement helped humans through plastic.
This time, the demand is for humanity.
THE NEW DEMAND
Humans matter more than the next purchase.
Humans matter more than the next purchase.