Plastic Collective: Sustainable Strategies for Reducing Plastic Waste

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Contents
1.0 Background to the case..............................................................................................................2
1.1 Introduction.....................................................................................................................................2
1.2 Importance of the Plastic Collective in Australian and international business landscape.............4
2.0 Demonstration of the Body of Knowledge:.....................................................................................4
2.1 Sustainable strategy of plastic collective.........................................................................................4
2.2 Sustainable related issues for Plastic Collective..............................................................................6
2.2.1 Infrastructure and Collection issue...............................................................................................7
2.2.2 Tourism’s negative impact on sustainability.................................................................................7
2.2.3 Wildlife and impact of habitat issues............................................................................................8
2.2.4 Economic impact..........................................................................................................................8
3.0 Explanation of the case and synthesis with the theory:....................................................................9
3.1 Identification of three strategies.......................................................................................................9
3.3Sustainable theories........................................................................................................................10
3.3.1 Zero waste theory...................................................................................................................10
3.3.2 Balance theory............................................................................................................................10
4.0 Analysis of the situation................................................................................................................11
4.1 Function of Plastic Collective as a firm.........................................................................................11
4.1.1 Role of planning.....................................................................................................................11
4.1.2 Role of Organising..................................................................................................................12
4.1.3 Role of leading........................................................................................................................12
4.1.4 Role of Control.......................................................................................................................13
4.1.5 Recommendations......................................................................................................................13
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................15

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1.0 Background to the case
1.1 Introduction
Major goal of the plastic collective is to ideally reduce the plastic waste in the societies so as
to encourage people to put emphasis on the innovative economies in different communities
(Allwood, et al. 2012). These Various strategies are utilised by the company for reducing the
plastic waste generated from different operations. Company’s primary mission is to promote
societies by improving the condition of plastic waste that too at the global levels. The
company performs in well-efficient manner by following steps in which first step is
collection of the plastics, second step is transformation and the third step is creation. Louise
Hardman founded Plastic Collective having the idea of spreading the awareness about the
plastic waste. This company was established by Louise in 2016 for making Shruder waste
plastics, providing educational training packages and developing ejection machine that can be
used for remote societies (Plastic collective, 2018). Louise was awarded for his idea and his
huge contribution in reducing the waste plastics. The company’s sole idea is to work of a
long-term mission that is associated with environment protection by converting plastic waste
in the useful resources. Huge amount of efforts and time is invested by the company so as to
explore the methods that helps in converting these wastes into plastics. In the start the
company was named as Pacific Collective but later on it was changed to plastic collective.
The idea of the firm was to reduce the plastic waste in the remote areas to make it pollution
free. The mission of the organisation is to increase the numbers of job profile related to waste
management within Australia.
Objectives of the company

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 To reduce the impact of plastic by giving that islands and remote communities with an
uncomplicated machine that can reconstruct the plastics into sensible and helpful
items.
 To develop a mobile recycling machine along with educational program that should
be focused on the chemistry of plastics.
Source: https://www.plasticcollective.co/
This report will discuss about different functionalities that includes leading, controlling,
organisation and planning so as to avoid any wrong practices in regard to sustainability of the
plastic collective company. This report is based on the ideas such as permitting individuals
with useful knowledge, enhance with the help of machineries and tools as well as discovering
new materials.