Circular11
Benjamin Gibbons and Connor Winter
Circular11 turn low-grade plastic waste into timber-substitutes and outdoor products, working with local community groups and national brands to provide a fully traceable recycling service that gives hard-to-recycle plastics a new life.
They want to make a circular economy affordable and accessible to all. Most plastic packaging is incinerated, landfilled, or leaked into the environment, but even the hardest plastics to recycle can continue to benefit communities if local recyclers use innovation and creativity to give them new life.
Circular11 work directly with the local community to take plastics and turn them into products that can be bought back and used for decades to come. When they eventually reach the end of their life, they take them back and recycle them again. This creates a circular economy that keeps the value of the material within the local area, generates local jobs, replaces carbon-intensive products, and provides environmentally sustainable waste management options for communities that need plastic products, but want to be part of the solution.
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We started Circular11 because we believe in a future where everyone has access to proper waste management, and safe housing – the key is realising that these different elements of the 11th Sustainable Development Goal can help solve each other. Whether we’re working with local communities in the South-West, or with communities in emerging markets, our purpose is the same: to make the circular economy accessible to all.
Benjamin Gibbons and Connor Winter, Founders of Circular11