Did you hear? We’re currently in the era of global boiling, not global warming. Yikes!

We know the usual suspects. Greenhouse gasses, overconsumption, and waste, waste, waste.

But here’s a solution. Blue Planet collects waste from landfills, sorts garbage, and turns waste materials into new products! 

• How? They acquire companies (like Malaysia’s Globecycle and the United Kingdom’s Smart Creative) to widen their services. 
• Headquartered in Singapore, they’re active across India, Malaysia, and the UK. 

Investor check. Malaysian Private Equity firm Bintang Capital. 

• The amount raised was undisclosed. 
• They raised $25M from Japan’s Nomura back in 2020. 

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🗑️ One man’s trash

Someone’s got to do the dirty work, but what if there’s just too much trash? Blue Planet has a number of solutions that help them collect trash and recover precious materials from waste.

• They clear overfilled waste dumps and contaminated areas by analyzing the waste composition and managing them based on their different characteristics. 
• They can also recover high-value materials—gold, silver, palladium–from electronic waste. 

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🧱 It’s a process

They’re not just cleaning landfills or contaminated areas, they also turn trash into something new!

• They have units that process food scraps and garden clippings into biogas.
• Oh, and they can turn inert waste (rocks, gravel, glass, ceramics, etc.) into geo-polymer concrete, which can be used as building blocks. 
• Finally, they have a solution that processes low-grade plastic into usable fuel oil. 

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🌊 What the future holds? 

Blue Planet’s going the $$$ to expand their teams and improve their waste management tech. 

• Run the numbers! They claim to have processed 3.3M metric tons of waste in 2022.
• A long way to go. For context, Malaysia generated about 38K metric tons of waste a day in 2021.