To have the necessary financial resources available to obtain the data and human resources required for each of the phases of the project by identifying a reliable and continuous source of funding.

Sources of funding may include: Non-governmental organizations and academia, international financing funds, non-profit foundations, national institutional budgets, among others.

Plastic credit allows a company to neutralize its plastic production and concurrently connects its brands and products with the social and environmental impact embedded within the process of producing the credits. Plastic credits are based on the weight of the plastic that a company produces. The money spent on the plastic credits will then go toward environmental projects that will eliminate an equal amount of orphan plastics as a company produces. If a company purchases plastic credits equal to the amount of plastic that they produce, then they are considered plastic neutral. Ideally, we would be working toward eliminating orphan plastics entirely, while plastic credits only serve to assist in managing the disposal of orphan plastics. However, they are a positive short-term remedy while we, as a world community, determine a more sustainable solution.

Our activities are audited by a 3rd Party Control Body as part of the Ocean Bound Plastic Neutrality Standard. Credibility is key. Corporations participating in the TONTOTON plastic neutralizing program receive certificates to verify the quantity of waste collected, transported, received, and converted into AFRM, allowing quantifiable and reliable reporting to all stakeholders of your business. Neutralization Certificates are kept in a Public Registry to ensure no double counting.

Co-processing is a safe, eco-friendly waste treatment, in line with the Basel Convention Technical Guidelines. It has been recognized as a recovery operation under EU legislation. This solution enables to avoid of open-air plastic burn and provides a greener solution for the cement industry.

It is a technology that converts manufacturing waste (like orphan plastic) into alternative fuels and raw materials (AFRM). Simply put, it’s when the trash is burned for its energy fuel rather than sources like petroleum and coal. The benefits of co-processing plastic are multiple: it reduces CO2 emissions by burning plastic rather than coal, it minimizes the use of non-renewable resources, it reduces plastic waste, and it’s a zero-waste practice since even the ashes are used in cement manufacturing. Cement factories offer the perfect solution to plastic management. Burning plastic for fuel rather than coal is a cleaner option, and it properly eliminates plastic that otherwise would have ended up in landfills, as ocean-bound plastic. The leftover ashes are mixed into the cement, ensuring that the entire process is zero-waste. 

Utlimately, the world benefits because plastic waste is being eliminated and fewer non-renewable resources are being used.

We work in poor waste-management areas with informal waste-pickers, who can benefit from better earnings. TONTOTON has created a new market for the orphan plastics incentivizing waste pickers for its collection of which formerly, they would otherwise ignore.

Under the program waste pickers are provided with:

• equipment for safer working conditions: masks, shoes, gloves

• access to the minimum health insurance

• sustainable earnings to fight poverty

• training for sorting, safety and more

Single-use plastic is too light, and its value too low to be collected and recycled. It has no market value, making it "Orphan Plastic" that is more likely to become marine litter. Ocean-bound describes plastic’s last stage before it ends up in the ocean. It appears in rivers, shorelines, and even land. While most of the ocean-bound plastic (OBP) originates within 50km of the shore, OBP may come from a location more inland, but because of mismanagement, it’s now headed toward our ocean. The best way to guarantee that plastics stay out of the ocean is to stop the issue at its source. Unfortunately, single-use plastics are too convenient, which means that we’re still years away from eliminating non-recyclable plastics entirely. 

While we wait for a viable substitute for non-recyclable plastics, we focus our efforts upon projects that seek to stop mismanaged OBP before it hits our ocean.

Collaboration with development companies, IT, engineers may create an innovative approach in conservation. High efficient telemetry perovskite solar panels provide hundreds of thousands of times more energy than is needed for fixing GPS position and other data like temperature, humidity, etc., and transmitting it to the cloud. Because of the high efficiency of perovskite power cells of solar panels devices telemetry collar can work with low light density, dust, and severe condition efficiently enough to produce the right amount of energy. In this case, accumulator batteries size decreased up to 90%, and the is no reason to replace them every 3-5 years, which decrease the negative impact of accumulator batterie on the environment 

A system that supports the monitoring on the global level and that could be available for all countries if data are provided. The GPS coordinates saved in the EEPROM memory need to be transmitted to the cloud server via gateways. The LoRaWAN communication protocol was used for transferring the data, which is Low Power, Wide Area Network designed to allow low-powered devices to communicate with internet-connected applications over a long-range wireless connection.

The strategy based on alliances allows connecting visions that lead to the development of actions oriented to a common objective, in this case, the restoration and conservation of the Central Park Natural Area and its zones of influence.

The activities that have made it possible to build this community network with actors from institutions and other CSOs have included on-site events related to their own projects, as well as training with expert advisors on restoration issues and practices outside the impact zone, but which make it possible to concretize and strengthen the technical learning necessary to continue with the project.

One of the most significant actions has been to collaborate with different social actors in the preparation of the Management Plan for the Natural Protected Area, which is a necessary and useful resource for conservation objectives and a multi-stakeholder action, as well as collaborations with transboundary associations such as the Arizona Desert Museum and Borderlands Restoration Network in an effort to improve the consequences of the impacts of exotic plants and implement restoration actions.

Establishing alternative livelihoods for the locals was as a result of the need for effective and sustainable management of the restored sites long after the life of the project. Once the local communities benefit from the restored grasslands, then they would manage the sites well and with the knowledge and skills imparted on them, they would continue increasing grasslands relatve to tree cover. In addition, the alternative livelihoods perfectly complemented the hirola rangelands restoration efforts. It was an excellent win-win situation. The locals produce hirola briquettes (certified high-heat, low-emission, compacted logs for use as cooking fuel) from the invasive trees and harvest native grass seeds from the restored sites for sale.