Team details

Team members

• Valy Phommachak

• Maliya Phommasone

• Phaiakone Sakountava

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Project details

Describe your product and your key goals

<aside> <img src="/icons/apple_blue.svg" alt="/icons/apple_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Describe your product Econox Laos is dedicated to enhancing the state of the natural environment and fostering sustainable development for communities across Laos. We offer a comprehensive range of services aimed at promoting environmental stewardship and sustainable practices. Plastic Free Laos Label is a certification scheme under Econox Laos that provides businesses with training, assistance, and audit for the green business to reduce the use of single-use plastic achieving the goal and receiving recognition from the SME Service Center, Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry. From Laundry to Legacy to Reduce Microplastics is a project aiming to help businesses under the Plastic Free Laos Label to reduce the microplastic pollution from their operation and services. Our initiative builds upon the strong foundation of Plastic Free Laos. To address this challenge, we're conducting studies to examine the types and quantity of microplastics from laundry activities, and developing a filter device specifically designed to capture microplastics before they enter sewage systems.

This innovative filter will be piloted with our Plastic Free Laos members. Following a successful pilot, we envision the device becoming a standard practice for eco-friendly businesses. Together with awareness-raising campaigns, both online and offline, we aim to have a well-aware community about the issue.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/bullseye_green.svg" alt="/icons/bullseye_green.svg" width="40px" /> What you want to achieve by March 2025

• Become the new standard. We will level up the standard of Plastic Free Laos Members in waste management.
• Awareness raising among businesses and communities.
• Reduce microplastic contamination that would affect local ecosystems and local communities who rely their lives on them.
• Contribute to reducing microplastic pollution that will enter the oceans. </aside>

Describe what you need the most

<aside> <img src="/icons/bell-notification_pink.svg" alt="/icons/bell-notification_pink.svg" width="40px" /> Describe the kinds of help you need the most (funding, expertise, technology, access, etc).

• We need technical support in terms of microplastic research implementation
• We need technical support from the water treatment expert </aside>

Describe your customers and the problem you are solving

<aside> <img src="/icons/brain_blue.svg" alt="/icons/brain_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Describe your target customers

• Businesses and Communities
• Plastic Free Laos Members
• Government Bodies & NGO </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/emoji-disappointed_pink.svg" alt="/icons/emoji-disappointed_pink.svg" width="40px" /> What pain points are you trying to solve?

• Microplastics contamination from the laundry sector
• The need for improved corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives
• Insufficient sustainable development practices </aside>

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