Take-Back Program

(Deposit Return System)

Deposit refund system is a take-back program from Producer/Brand to their consumer. It didn't affect Producer's material acquisition cost. Deposit fee charged to consumer at the time of purchase and refunded to the consumer at the time they dispose using Octopus User app. DRS has been proven in multiple emerging countries to increase recycling rate. It also allowing Electronic Producers doing reverse logistic to their products

Advantage of Octopus DRS mechanism :

Per Piece Method

Octopus collection method using per piece instead of kg, it allow to capture specific type of material for recycling/upcycling

Cost Efficient

With octopus DRS, recycling fees and material acquisition cost will be decrease to a significant level

Measureable

Our dashboard also help Producer/Brand to measure their DRS strategies and give recommendation based on consumer behaviour.

ESR

(Extended Stakeholders Responsibility)

Our ecosystem help Producer/Brands fulfilling their annual ESR target. We ensure an ethical and impactful collection ecosystem for Producer/Brands to collect their post-consumer products. Octopus verify all the key stakeholders from the Consumer, waste collectors and waste collection businesses. Brand/producers will get a monthly insight of their ESR progress and how to effectively achieve their annual target.

Advantage of Octopus ESR mechanism :

High Standard Verification

Our trained collectors will verify all the collected post consumer product/packaging to meet industrial standard

Track & Collect

Our ecosystem are able to track & collect certain Post Consumer product/packaging direct from consumer to the Recycling Industry

Program Incentives

Producer/Brands also allow to give incentives to local waste stakeholders (Pelestari & Checkpoints) through our platforms, as part of Brand/Producers ESR strategies.

Case Study

Our ecosystem are capable of doing reverse-logistic for every single piece of post-consumer product

PET Bottle (Recycling Post-Consumer Packaging)

Most of the people thoughts that this most valuable plastic is already well recycled. As a matter of fact, the rejection rate from bottle to bottle recycling industry still up to 40%. It’s because of the collected PET that goes to the industry are contaminated in collection process.

Our Solution

We're working with Danone Aqua to increase PET collection rate and decrease the rejection rate while giving impact to local waste stakeholders in BALI. We connect to local waste stakeholders to build our ecosystem, We build a healthier PET trading ecosystem with certain pricing and quality standard. Our AI technologies giving price recommendation to our Checkpoints based on current virgin material price, local market price and any other factors that could impact the price. With this method we have decrease rejection rate from 40% to 1.8% in only 6 months of operation. We provide DRS mechanism to our user and collection incentives to Pelestari & Checkpoints.

Used Diapers (Upcycling Post-consumer product)

Used diapers has been the most problem in the landfill, as you may recall that in early 2019 there are 3 containers of imported waste in Indonesia contains of used diapers. This is the problem that urgently need to be solved in Indonesia. Softex Indonesia Upcycling facility would like to increase their collection from 3 tons/month to 5.2 tons/month for their pilot project.

Our Solution

We're working with Softex Indonesia under Kimberly & Clarks to collect used diapers from consumer to get upcycle on their facilities in Bandung, West Java. We're setting a standard operating procedure for our PELESTARI when they collect used diapers. We're giving DRS incentive to the responsible consumer that dispose their used diapers through our platforms. Our routing technology help PELESTARI efficiently collect from Consumer to the upcycling facility. Our goal is to increase upcycling rate of used diapers.