Generous Designs collects old tarpaulins from UNHCR or other aid agencies, which were given to arriving refugees for roofing. The sun is slowly destroying the plastic sheets and holes form and after a couple of years are thrown away. The social enterprise collects the sheets and uses the parts still in good condition as the base material for waterproof school bags for refugee children, handbags and shopping bags.
The enterprise embarked in 2021 also into larger-scale plastic recycling through machines from "Plasticpreneur". Old plastic is collected in the Bidibid Refugee Settlement, shredded, melted and re-molded into new products, such as pegs for hanging clothes or scholastic materials.
