DELTERRA
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Mission Statement
Delterra is an environmental nonprofit on a mission to create a world where human activities protect and restore a healthy planet. Delterra’s founding partner is McKinsey & Company, and its flagship initiative, Rethinking Recycling, works with communities in emerging economies to build rapidly scalable, self-sustaining waste management and recycling ecosystems that redirect waste into productive use while improving the lives of the people it touches. In the coming years, Delterra will add other initiatives to its portfolio, all with a view to developing innovative scalable solutions that redesign human systems for the good of people and the planet.
About This Cause
We take on challenges with a view to transform entire ecosystems, starting with waste management and recycling in emerging economies. We work alongside change agents from public, private, and social sectors to understand the challenges and solve them together. We transform the broken system of recycling by fixing the vicious cycle of unreliable demand and poor supply. We address poor supply by developing self-sustaining, community owned recycling programs and unreliable demand by working with corporate players to absorb the supply at a fair price on an ongoing basis. Our theory of change helps to build scalable solutions that deliver rapid impact. And we do so in collaboration with resident communities, partner organizations, and local governments. In addition, we leverage technology in innovative ways to amplify our impact and improve lives. Our flagship initiative, Rethinking Recycling, works with communities and industry to create highly productive, financially attractive systems that rapidly increase the amount of material recycled into productive use, including solutions for plastics and organic waste. On the supply side, we develop community-owned, self-sustaining waste management systems that produce a reliable stream of high-value recyclables while serving everyone in the community. On the demand side, we work with corporate players to build aggregation, traceability, and logistics solutions, and to create local markets to consistently absorb the supply of recycled material at a fair price. We reinforce this approach with government support at the right moments and at multiple levels, to enable and sustain the full-scale adoption of successful models.