‘Uberizing’ plastic waste collection
Heng Hiap Industries receives waste plastic from 28,000 individual recyclers in the region. The company converts the material into a high-performance resin before selling it to clients that include top South Korean appliance manufacturers, and Japanese automotive companies.
The demand for quality recycled plastic is so high that Heng Hiap Industries was struggling to keep pace. Previously, it had purchased waste plastic from informal collectors near the factory. However, this process was manual, complex, and involved pen and paper transactions, and in-person negotiation.
Heng Hiap Industries wanted to leverage the possibilities offered by digital transformation in the waste sector to simplify and digitize this process, while seizing other opportunities to enable ‘smart’ recycling – thereby increasing the value of recycled plastic through the supply chain.