Recyglo' affordable circular economy solutions

The global pollution problem that is caused by waste pollution is in need of help in developing countries to serve bottom 4 billion people where they lack infrastructure, awareness and education. We came up with two verticals: B2B and B2B2C models to offer zero waste solutions. Meanwhile, we provide training for employees & facility crew for waste management knowledge offline & Online, segregation bins as infrastructure, logistics platform, data analytics for waste consumption and reporting & traceability mechanism. B2B model allows us to bring in the revenue directly to us and to have direct impact on hundreds of thousands of employees. B2B2C App model allows individuals to do their own waste management, recycling and carbon footprint reduction. B2B is subscription model and B2B2C is commission based on raw materials trading through the whole supply chain. 

In many developing countries, landfill and incineration creates massive environmental pollution problems. In Yangon, the biggest city in Myanmar with more than 8 million people alone produced more than 10,000 metric tons per day. First of all, there is no segregation infrastructure in place and collection system cannot serve the whole population. Only 2 million out of 8 million population in Yangon is served and only 10% out of 51 million is served in Myanmar. The number is is similar in the South East Asia and many developing countries in Africa. We want to change that. We want all the resources are circulated back in the circular economy. 

We are serving in urban area first using our B2B zero waste management solutions. The direct impact is the number of employees that they are using our zero waste management service. All the waste are re-purposed, recycled and upcycled. We have connected with existing infrastructure for the improvement of waste management recycling solutions as well as creating new solution through new technology and R&D. The businesses receive the Dashboard on reflecting how much waste are collected and recycled, traceability on what happen to the waste and carbon footprint calculation & offsetting. Currently more than 250,000 people are using our service. We are expected to be a million users at the end of this year. 

The employees also become our customers in our personalized waste management platform where they can sell their second-hand products and recycled materials to the collectors meanwhile collectors can trade their raw materials to recycling factories through our platform.

Our solution is a waste management platform together for businesses to do recycling for all the waste they produce along with traceability and reporting mechanism.  The platform is empowered by logistics network and data analytical to do recommendation on cost reduction. 

Our B2B Waste Management solution bring in multiple stakeholders from waste management industries to make sure that our system can run without infrastructural needs. The innovation happens using technology to serve and scale in the sector where it usually require large capital investment, educational awareness and supply chain innovation. Our business end-user receive internationally recognized certification, Dashboard for downloading waste management reports, see the optimized waste management collection schedules, order sustainability related products and do on-demand collection and waste management service for special category of waste. The logistics is designed by based on the UBER model of on-demand truck that significantly reduced the operational cost and large capital investment.  The recycling factories receive the large volume of waste and clean raw materials that are directly source from the waste generation area. 

Our C2C solutions allow individual to do recycling and waste management for free of charge and get paid by selling recyclable items. The model is UBER-for-Recycling and on-demand service. We have connected with informal sector who are doing large amount of recyclable waste collection in the market to connect with household directly. Household can do recycling and make money while collector can collect on valuable recyclable items have easy access to valuable recycled items directly from the household.  Both parties achieved win-win situation. In the mid-mile of the supply chain, we become a aggregator for raw materials to sell it to local and regional recycling factories through our platform. 

In B2B, We have build the whole product-market fit supply chain and automation of every new process by the technology. The core technology is combination of already existing multiple process technologies and integrating in our supply chain platform. We use Bokashi organic recycling to allow organic recycling conveniently at Organizations without the smell. We use pressing technologies from Germany to be able to recycle non-recyclable items from the market for producing ceiling board. We connect with truck drivers through our IT platform to be able to do logistics. We are equipping our bins with IOT devices to be able to measure the weight of the waste on each category and calculate on average carbon that we are producing instead of measuring the weight every time we collect. Blockchain is deploying in the whole supply chain to be able to capture the whole supply chain movement of raw materials. 

In C2C, we predict the number on-demand service through machine learning where people will be ordering the on-demand collection and why they will be doing it. Artificial Intelligence is used in image recognition of waste and order-receiving through Facebook Bot.  

We are making small changes one at a time. In order to give the best possible service for our clients,  we make sure sure that supply side is helping to make one changes at a time. We started our business with only three item: Plastics, Cans and Paper. Later we expand into other various types of waste such as electronics waste, glass, organic, textiles,etc. For non-recyclable items such as organic, electronics waste and some types of glasses, we curate on their different needs. For organic, we use Bokashi organic Recycling Technology to allow us to do composting-at-site and connect with organic farms while we ship e-waste to South Korea, Japan and Slovenia to do recycling.We connected Malaysian factories also take glass cullets for large amount where only 10% of the glass is recycled in Myanmar. In addition to Waste Management, we are now adding other services such as carbon footprint calculation, off-setting based through our C2C platform on specific categories on waste such as plastics packaging that require additional support to be able to recycling. We provide training and education to stay on our platform through online and offline Learning Management System. 

Currently, 250,000 people are using our service in B2B business line. We count the number of people who are working in our client’s organization as our customers. We recycle on average of 100 metrics tons per month. We are now running a campaign called “1 million people separating trash” by the end of 2019. 

In 2022, We have a strong presence in South East Asia and offering our innovative circular economy zero-waste  waste management solutions, energy reduction and carbon offsetting schemes to 10 millions in the region.

In 2025, , we imagine ourselves as the biggest waste management company in South East Asia and offering innovative and affordable waste management solutions to 100 million people and expanding to other developing countries in Africa and South America.

In Fiscal year 2019, we want to increase our customer base of 400 to 2000 customers and recycle more than 500 metric tons per month. In 5 year, we want to handle 30,000 metric tons per day out of 40,000 metric tons per day and impacting more than 20 million people lives. By the end of 2019, 1 million people have access to better and proper waste management and recycling services.

Our company is based in Singapore, mainly operate in Myanmar and invited by Malaysian government to expand in Malaysia.  We are learning that localization of the solutions, strong technology, good network and right timing is the key to success in achieving our goals. We are experiencing that our expansion in the region is morally uplifting everyone who is working in the sustainability sector and inspiring many organizations and people of Myanmar that creating a scale social impact is not far away.

We are solving one problem at a time. We are allocating all of our resources to one problem and then solve. After the problem is solved, we dedicate ourselves into integration in our platform. Later we focus on another problem. 

We believe as long as you have a consistent cash flow, passionate and well-trained team, Good Corporate Governance and innovative technology, we can overcome in 

We use hybrid model.We charge subscription from our clients for consistent service revenue and the value on the recovery of raw materials waste go to support our Waste Management project in rural area and urban-poor area. 

We also run grant project on building infrastructure, community building and capacity building project. 

 20 Full time 

10 Part time 

Roughly 120 business partners in C2C model 

More than 50 labors from informal waste management sector for C2C model 

More than 100 drivers for B2B professional waste collections 

More than 200 factories and international recycling partners locally and internationally 

Okka Phyo Maung, Co-founder and CMO/CFO bring in his international experience form around the world together with local expertise and thus equipping the organization with the vision and bird eye view to take the organization to the next level. Specialized in Finance and Engineering with natural born excellence in communication allow him to be a great sale and Business Development person in the team. 

Shwe Yamin Oo, Co-founder and CEO enrich the organization with her more a decade of her Serial Entrepreneurial Journey to make sure that organization can go strong in any situation under her leadership. Founder of community development tech school, retail-chains, accounting app and now the founder of best Startup in Yangon. 

We are partnering with Government of Malaysia and Magic Accelerator for expansion in Malaysia. 

With GIZ and Shan State Government in Myanmar to expand our C2C solutions in the whole state of 6 million population. 

We also have partnership with hundreds of recycling factories from South East and around the World.  

We partnered with hundreds of collectors to be able to serve UBER-for-recycling solutions. 

For the logistics of B2B, we onboard more than hundreds of drivers to do professional waste collection services. 

We offer the all-in-one package that includes trash bins, waste management training, logistics and waste management and recycling. We charge based on the frequency of waste collection. Typically organization subscribed for two times per month. Trash bins and waste management training are fraction of the cost and the pricing model allowed us to have 40% margin per customers out of 1200 USD per annual. 

We are winning because our solution is cheaper, better and tech empowered.  We are the asset light model and collaboration platform that allow our customers to provide their service. Anyone win in the ecosystem and we will also win as a result.  

We carefully curate the lead through digital marketing, create a group of hard core supporters and generate a lot of warm calling. We support lots of plastics campaign for plastics and waste management awareness We became a well-recognized brand in the market that Businesses and households want to be associated with. 

The subscription model alone is expected to generate between 500,000 USD to 1 million US revenue at the end of this physical year.  We have raised in total of 175,000 USD and our price to book ratio more than 2 and represent a healthy and strong growth business model. We are expected to close our 7 figures seed round (By the International size)  by the end of this. 

We are currently break even by the cash-accounting basic, however, we are expected to be break even by acrual-accounting basic at the end of 2019 physical year. 

Meanwhile, we are also filling gap infrastructural, awareness and capacity building gap of Myanmar market by the private sector support Grant money which is funded by several international governments

We finished for pre-seed now we are in the stage of raising Seed round of 500,000 USD. With the financial support and hard work, our goal is to raise the fund for up to 10 million series A to grow in the region.

We are currently operating in the emerging economy which presents the extremely challenging business climate and where pure tech does not work in some parts of the region. However, we have shown that the right time is now and we make the green business into sustainable and scalable business. 

We believe that access to Solve Network will allow us to have more financially sustainable model, raise fund through Solve Network, receive mentorship for corporate governance and leadership from a small Startup to become more established and regional player. We believe Solve will play a big role in implementing our strategies. 

We would like to partner with MIT to receive fellow from MIT for one or two years replacement in Recyglo. 

We used Chat Bot AI to receive the orders from our clients on Facebook Platform. We are deploying AI to have dynamic price, logistics supply chain movement on routing and collectors collection become more efficient. Image recognition for the waste for appropriate collectors. 

By Using AI for textiles recycling for matching cut and sew waste for needed specification. 

Recycling of non-recyclable waste into something usable and valuable. We are now recycling non-recyclable items such as plastics packaging into furniture board using pressing technology as well as bulky electronics waste into building block. 

Shwe Yamin Oo, Co-founder and CEO enrich the organization with her more a decade of her Serial Entrepreneurial Journey to make sure that organization can go strong in any situation under her leadership. Founder of community development tech school, retail-chains, accounting app tech-Startup and now the founder of best Startup in Yangon.