Every brand’s path to impact is different — so it helps to work with a partner that gets your goals and makes it easy to bring them to life.
Both Ecodrive and Plastic Bank contribute to ocean plastic removal and global sustainability, but they take different approaches
If you’re currently working with Plastic Bank and considering a switch, our team can support your transition (at no cost).
Here’s a detailed breakdown to help you decide which partner is the better fit for your brand.
Why choose Ecodrive over other sustainability platforms?
Plastic Bank is a social enterprise focused on reducing ocean-bound plastic while empowering communities in developing countries. Their key offerings include:
Ocean-Bound Plastic Collection: Facilitates the collection of plastic waste within 50 kilometers of coastlines, preventing it from entering the ocean.
Community Empowerment: Engages over 57,000 collectors who exchange gathered plastic for income and social benefits, fostering economic opportunities in underserved areas.
Impact Tracking: Provides members with updates on the number of plastic bottles collected, offering a tangible measure of their environmental contribution.
Membership Programs: Offers personal and professional memberships starting at $9/month, allowing individuals and businesses to support plastic collection efforts and receive impact certificates.
Circular Economy Initiatives: Transforms collected plastic into new products, promoting a circular economy and reducing reliance on virgin plastic.
Built for integration, storytelling, and transparency, Ecodrive makes it easy to embed sustainability into your business model in a way that resonates with your customers.
Impact Across Land and Sea
From extracting ocean-bound plastic to restoring kelp forests and planting trees, Ecodrive offers access to a mix of verified projects tailored to your brand’s environmental focus.
Verified and Visual Proof of Impact
Every action is backed by real data — including timestamps, GPS coordinates, and photos from the exact cleanup or restoration sessions your business supports. No vague reports. Just real evidence.
Tools That Match Your Brand
Create a unique impact experience for your audience with branded dashboards, customizable badges, and co-branded marketing assets designed to reflect your brand’s personality and tone.
Integrates Where You Work
Ecodrive connects easily with platforms like Shopify, Amazon, and other ecommerce or CRM tools — or use our API to embed environmental impact directly into your customer journey.
Live Metrics and Transparency
Access project data and performance insights in real time, giving you and your team everything needed to track, communicate, and celebrate the difference you’re making — down to the last pound of plastic removed.
Plastic Bank offers tiered memberships starting at $9/month for individuals and businesses, primarily focused on supporting plastic collection efforts. While this provides a simple way to contribute, customization and integration options are limited at lower tiers.
Ecodrive provides flexible pricing tailored to your business size, goals, and level of integration. Whether you're launching a one-off campaign, tying impact to each transaction, or building sustainability into your customer lifecycle, Ecodrive works with you to create a plan that fits your needs and functions seamlessly.
While both Ecodrive and Plastic Bank contribute significantly to the health of our planet, Ecodrive offers distinct advantages for businesses aiming to integrate into operations more deeply and showcase their sustainability efforts:
Comprehensive Environmental Impact: Ecodrive's support for a variety of projects beyond plastic collection allows businesses to address multiple environmental concerns within a single platform.
Enhanced Transparency and Verification: With advanced tools providing detailed, verifiable evidence of impact, Ecodrive ensures that businesses and their customers can share their sustainability stories. with great detail.
Tailored Business Solutions: Ecodrive's customizable integration capabilities enable businesses to align sustainability initiatives closely with their operations and customer engagement strategies.
Real-Time Engagement: By offering immediate access to impact data and visuals, Ecodrive keeps businesses and their customers engaged and informed, fostering a deeper connection to sustainability efforts.
Plastic Bank excels in community-driven plastic collection and social empowerment, making it an excellent option for individuals and organizations focused on ocean-bound plastic removal and coastal communities globally.
However, for brands looking to embed sustainability into their operations with extreme transparency, flexibility, and customer-focused tools, Ecodrive offers a solution built to deliver on all fronts.
"Ecodrive has completely changed the way we approach sustainability. Not only are we actively removing plastic from the ocean, but we’re doing it in a way that our customers can see and connect with. The transparency, the storytelling, and the real-time data has helped us build trust and grow our brand in a really authentic way."
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Bring your sustainability efforts to life by connecting your customers directly to the change they are making when they support your business.From trees planted to plastic removed, every action is uniquely verified and trackable.
Ecodrive connects each of your customers to an exact tree or pound of plastic based on the projects you’re supporting.
They receive project updates via email and can register to keep tabs on their unique impact via a co-branded journey.
Your customer’s profile then tracks and displays their personal environmental impact.
Easily shareable, Impact IDs allow your business to be discovered by likeminded consumers who care about creating impact with their dollars.
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