The Flipflopi Toolkit
Recycling solutions for remote communities

Why track your impact?

There are many good reasons for tracking the impact of your work. In fact, tracking impact is essential for plastic recovery and recycling community-based organisations (CBOs) to measure progress, improve operations, and secure long-term support. 

Here’s why it matters:

1. Demonstrating environmental impact

  • Shows how much plastic waste is collected and prevented from polluting the environment.
  • Helps quantify reductions in plastic leakage into waterways, dumpsites, and communities.
  • Provides data on recycling rates and material recovery success.

2. Strengthening funding opportunities

  • Many donors, grants, and investors require clear impact data before offering financial support.
  • Helps build credibility by showing measurable results.
  • Demonstrates how funds are used effectively to create real change.

3. Improving operations and efficiency

  • Identifies what is working and what needs improvement in waste collection, sorting, and processing.
  • Tracks collection trends to plan resources better.
  • Helps minimise waste losses and improve plastic sorting and processing efficiency.

4. Engaging the community and partners

  • Provides evidence of success to motivate volunteers, waste collectors, and local stakeholders.
  • Strengthens partnerships with local governments, businesses, and NGOs.
  • Encourages more people to participate in collection and recycling efforts.

5. Supporting policy and advocacy work

  • Gives data to influence policymakers on the need for better waste management laws and incentives.
  • Helps push for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policies that benefit recyclers.
  • Strengthens the case for investment in infrastructure like collection points and MRFs.

6. Ensuring financial sustainability

  • Tracks revenue from recycled materials and plastic products to inform business planning.
  • Helps manage costs, pricing strategies, and profitability of recycling initiatives.
  • Supports diversification of funding sources beyond grants (e.g. plastic credits, EPR subsidies).

By tracking impact, you can prove the value of your work, improve efficiency, attract funding, and drive lasting environmental and social change in your community.

This section of The Flipflopi Toolkit has been designed to help you track and share your impact so you can prove the value of your work, improve efficiency, attract funding, and drive lasting environmental and social change in your community.

In particular, there is often a language gap between donors and community-based organisations and small enterprises. Use this toolkit to level-up your practices and the way you communicate your achievements, to help you scale your impact.

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