rePurpose Founders Join Forbes 30 Under 30 List

Environmental warriors are plenty on this year’s 30 Under 30 Asia list as well—particularly those working towards finding practical ways to reduce waste on both individual and industrial levels.

Inspired by the carbon credit market, RePurpose Global is a plastic credit platform, founded by Svanika Balasubramanian, Peter Wang Hjemdahl and Aditya Siroya. Like being carbon neutral, RePurpose enables individuals and businesses to become plastic neutral and take responsibility for their plastic footprint by funding recycling of the same amount of plastic waste they produce.

Currently, RePurpose funds plastic recovery projects across six countries and works with companies and organizations like Nestlé, World Wildlife Fund and the World Bank to create an international plastic offset standard. For its efforts, RePurpose was recognized by the United Nations Environment Programme as one of the top 12 innovations in plastic recycling.