Evergreen Labs, headquartered in Singapore with country offices in Vietnam and the Philippines, is a creative business lab focused on social, circular economy venture building in Southeast Asia since 2016. Their purpose organization aims to solve pressing environmental and social challenges through innovative, circular social businesses in emerging Asia and beyond.

To date, they have built and currently operate four social enterprises and have used their grassroots expertise to work with development organizations, private sector businesses, and governments on various projects across SEA. Their core expertise lies in solid waste management (primarily plastics), agriculture value chain, water, and circular economy models (including reuse systems & closed-loop supply chains).Evergreen Labs pioneers accessible sustainability through decentralized innovation.

They build affordable, ground-up solutions that bring the circular economy to those who need it most, transforming environmental challenges into opportunities for all.

APPROACH

• Identifying and solving environmental or social issues using simple and affordable solutions.
• The next step involves ideation to come up with viable solutions, including searching for existing solutions worldwide that can be adapted or developing new ones.
• After conceiving a viable idea, it undergoes validation studies, including feasibility studies, pilots, prototypes, and in-field research and development. The market is then tested to assess whether there is a demand for the innovation.
• Two routes are available within Evergreen Labs after a successful pilot and positive feedback from the market.
• They will operate a stand-alone business that has a viable business model and build an operations team with shared administration if necessary. 
• If a solution has potential but lacks resources or a complete business model, it will be shared with the public to inspire entrepreneurs and locals to create something valuable.

SERVICES

• Sustainability
• Social plastic collection schemes
• Waste infrastructure
• EPR & Plastic credit faciliation
• Innovation
• Track and Trace material