Apparently there’s a group that calls themselves a “Plastic Bank.” It plans to create a currency for the world’s poor using plastic trash as its main product. As their story goes, “The company, formed in 2013, pays people to collect plastic waste and take it to recycling markets in Haiti and, more recently, the Philippines. (There are plans to expand to Brazil and Indonesia, followed by South Africa, the Vatican, Panama and India). Collectors can receive payment in money, of course, but they also can draw on the credit to buy stuff, like cook stoves or fuel, at special stores.”

Avila, B. S. (2018, October 23). Technology will help clean up our seas. Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. 9.