Empower is enabling a global plastic waste recycling ecosystem that both creates job opportunities for the extremely poor, a sovereign digital ID and access to financial services for the unbanked. We do this by deploying a digital plastic waste deposit system around the World.

Main sectors: Energy, Climate & Environment

Main applications: Tax collection/Credits; Digital Tokens

Established in: 2018

URL: https://empower.eco/

Organisation: Empower AS

Organisation type: Companies (for-profit) – Startup

Founders: Wilhelm Myrer, CEO & Founder

Partners: IMPACT; SOLAR IMPULSE FOUNDATION; Nordic Ocean Watch; Innovation Norway; Peniche Ocean Watch

Country: Norway

City: Oslo

Stage of project: Pilot

Geographical reach: International

DLT / Blockchain: Public  – Stellar 

Other technologies: N/A

Whitepaper: N/A

Github: N/A

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Empowerplastic

This project is part of the #DLT4Good Scanning. ‘#DLT4Good: Co-creating a European Ecosystem of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Social and Public Good’ is a forward-looking science for policy project supported by the European Parliament, and coordinated by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in cooperation with the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT). Learn more about #DLT4Good.