We Build Plastic Recovery Systems Where Others Don’t

Recovered Indonesia (RECO) is an integrated plastic recovery company operating decentralized collection and processing systems across Indonesia. Reco is East Indonesia’s largest collection-led recycler for ocean-bound plastics.

With RECO we specialize in recovering low-value, and hard-to-recycle plastics in coastal and underserved regions, closing infrastructure gaps and reintegrating materials into the circular economy.

We build a recovery infrastructure where it’s most needed. We collect difficult material in challenged regions.

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Team sorting recovered plastic at a RECO facility

Strengthening Collection Infrastructure

We expand structured plastic collection systems in regions where waste is burned, or dumped. With RECO we increase waste management capacity in high-leakage coastal and island areas. We intensify the collection and pre-processing and recycle centralized in our headquarters in Surabaya.

More collection = more recycling = less ocean leakage

Integrate Informal Networks

We formalize and integrate waste collectors into our recovery systems, enabling safer working conditions, stable income, and long-term participation in the recycling value chain, while ensuring environmental sound waste management standards.

Workers integrating informal collection at a RECO site

At RECO we believe that a just transition of the informal waste sector is the key to overcome collection and aggregation challenges that are needed to catalyse the circular economy. Therefore, RECO works directly with the informal sector not only as an offtaker but as an impact driven co-investor.

Community mural and behaviour change activities

Drive Community Behavior Change

Together with our foundation partner, Veritas Edukasi Lingkungan (VEL), we implement long-term education and community engagement programs that eliminate open dumping and burning, promote household-level segregation, and reinforce responsible consumption through the 3R principle.

Infrastructure lasts when behavior changes.

Powered by RECOllection App

Our digital traceability platform enables real-time monitoring, transparent reporting, and EPR-aligned compliance across our recovery network.

The RECOllection App connects collectors, aggregators, and processing partners on the ground. Each transaction is logged and verified, creating a reliable chain of custody for recovered materials, even in informal and hard-to-reach contexts.

As part of Recovered Indonesia’s role as a Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO), the platform translates on-the-ground recovery into measurable, auditable impact. For partners and customers, this means full transparency and confidence in their impact.