Smart Sustainable Solutions

We seamlessly connect the physical and digital worlds in a manner
that is most sustainable to both our planet, and to the life it nurtures.

ECOCAN offers intelligent technology solutions for sustainable management of product packaging, brand protection, and enhancing consumer engagement. This revolutionary technology leveraging IoT transforms ordinary packaging into smart packaging that are digitally connected, and can be tracked in real-time, across the entire value chain. 

Through an advanced digital platform, we empower consumers with AI-enabled and blockchain receptive product authentication technology, to safeguard against counterfeit products. Further, the platform creates a marketplace for used packaging by conveniently connecting producers and recyclers seeking used packaging for re-use or recycling, with consumers who possess the used packaging, but lack access to recycling markets. 

At the back end of the platform, progressive data analytics tools collect and process insightful geographic, demographic and first party data, for monitoring counterfeit and product diversion activities, as well as for targeted marketing. 

Central to this eco-system is our proprietary mobile application, EcocanApp, complemented by a Nordic-design Deposit Refund System (DRS)

Our Mission

Preserving our planet

We are committed to promoting environmental conservation by innovatively generating new value from packaging waste, in the most sustainable way.

Preserving life

Our dedication extends to health sustainability, empowering communities with secure technology to protect themselves from harmful, and most often fatal, counterfeit products.

Supporting community

We offer equal opportunities for everyone to lead and earn from the change we drive. Irrespective of gender, race, or beliefs, we cultivate inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can prosper.

Promoting economic sustainability

We strive to enhance the resource efficiency of beverage packaging by optimising the value we derive from this resource. We further facilitate beverage producers to reclaim market shares lost to counterfeits and increase sales through targeted marketing.

Technology

At the core of our solutions lies a groundbreaking digital platform which harnesses the power of Artificial Intelligence, enabling Internet of Things capabilities and blockchain integration.

This one-of-its-kind technology not only revolutionizes the beverage packaging and brand protection industries, but also sets new benchmarks for efficiency and security.

EcocanApp

The digital platform is powered by our proprietary mobile application, which empowers beverage consumers to easily authenticate products eligible for deposit refunds, by just using their mobile phones. This is achieved by scanning unique security codes, exclusively attached to genuine products, before purchase.

 

Reverse Vending Machines (RVM)

  • At the eco-stations, consumers place their used bottles into the RVMs’ in-feed, which then scans the bottles by taking up to 1000 pictures per second, to identify the container based on its shape, weight, size, material, barcode, any special marking (such as security codes, QR-codes, forensic tracers, and security inks), and determines the owed deposit amount before refunding the same to consumers either digitally or
    physically.
  • Staying true to our collaborative efforts, we have partnered with a leading RVM technology supplier, to provide eco-stations with the world’s smallest patented RVMs, The Pure Crusher.
  • These RVMs compare in size to trash cans, measuring only 45.6 X 54.1 X 85 cm, yet equipped with capabilities of larger RVMs. We’ve christened these
    compact RVMs, the EcoCans, abbreviation for Ecologically friendly trash Cans. 
  • These EcoCans significantly reduce floor space requirements which typically is a huge bottleneck to setting up eco-stations, particularly in tight spaces.
    Unlike conventional RVMs that issue paper receipts, with EcoCans, consumers can digitally redeem applicable deposit amounts directly from the machines onto their EcocanApp wallets. 
  • This activity greatly reduces environmental pollution caused by paper receipt litter, tree felling for receipt production, and associated financial costs of physically issuing the receipts. Additionally, this activity streamlines the deposit redemption process, reduces possibilities of deposit fraud, and offers a smooth and fulfilling consumer experience.

Serialised codes

To preserve the integrity of genuine brands, we employ serialized security codes that are copy-proof. These codes are blockchain-compatible and are carefully designed to be mathematically and physically impossible to replicate.

Combining digital cryptography with physical carrier features, these codes are developed using a unique encoding method that encrypts and converts digital data and security information. This ensures maximum brand security.

  • Measuring only 9.1 mm x 7.6 mm, the batch or unitary security codes can be digitally delivered to authorized printers for seamless printing onto product labels with subsisting printing technology, or laser marking on metallic surfaces.
  • Consumers can then scan these codes using our proprietary EcocanApp to
    reliably verify the authenticity of products before making a purchase, a process that takes less than 3 seconds.
  • This authentication process can also be utilized by producers to engage consumers with customized marketing campaigns.

Eco-Brilliance!

Fully embracing our innovative core, we have taken out the main functions of the RVMs and EcoCans from the relatively expensive hardware, and placed them onto the free to use EcocanApp.

This initiative is intended to democratise access of RVMs from few retail stores in global North that can afford them, into the remotest of places in developing markets, where it would normally be impossible and too expensive to install RVMs.  

  • As follows, beverage consumers in slum dwellings North of Somalia or in the deserts of Sahara are offered equal opportunity to make their fair contribution to protecting our planet by returning used bottles for recycling, and still enjoy the same fulfilling recycling experience, similar to that of a consumer in Nordic Europe. All they need is a mobile phone!
 
  • Additionally, once eco-stations storage spaces get full, the staff can use the agent version of EcocanApp to hail electric bicycles, scooters or trucks completing a ride nearby, to pick up the returned bottles and drop them off to participating recyclers.
  • This to us, is the true embodiment of sustainable innovation, Eco-genius!

Why partner with us

Conserve our environment

Currently, our cities and oceans are choking with plastic waste

Protect consumer health

Our markets are filled with counterfeit products, dangerous to our health

Support our communities

We offer fair opportunities for everyone to make their contribution to protect our planet, and earn from it.

First to market solutions

We offer innovative technology to revolutionise the packaging and brand protection sectors

Legal compliance

We facilitate beverage producers and consumers to comply with environmental laws

We think we are cool

We are on a mission, driving a movement, with a purpose. Stand for something you believe in.

Partners

Become a sustainability champion

Join us on our impactful journey to protect our planet, preserve life and to support our communities. 

At ECOCAN, we strongly believe in the power of collaboration to drive positive change. And your participation in this sustainability revolution is very much welcomed. Karibu sana!