AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Responsible Consumption & Production
KEYWORDS
community platform, recycling
COUNTRY
France
DESIGNED BY
Eric Brac de la Perrière, founder & CEO
WEBSITE
https://yoyo.eco/
YOYO
100% Recycling
Yoyo is a company that works with public and private sector partners to roll out a project to double neighborhood plastic recycling rates. Its aim is to combat pollution in cities by capturing 100% of waste plastic flows. The plan is to reach out to those who sort the most and the best. Yoyo works by rewarding people for sorting carefully, mobilizing communities of like-minded locals. By sharing their best practices, we help people to reduce the impact of their day-to-day consumption.
In 2018, Yoyo was operational in six cities and its 15,000 sorter residents had recycled 2 million bottles via a French-based short recycling circuit. Yoyo has proved that with resolutely positive ecology it is possible to double the amount of plastic recycled in French cities – and reduce drastically plastic pollution.