No-Trash Triangle Initiative was founded to protect the Coral Triangle from plastic pollution testing root cause solutions on Bangka Island, in North Sulawesi, with the ambition of creating replicable models that can be rolled out across the region. The ultimate goal is to roll out a blueprint to other regions suffocated by plastic. Our work is informed by science and enabled by collaboration across multiple partners, countries and institutions. Each of our four pillars tackles a different area but all four are required to fully address the ever increasing problem of ocean pollution: 1. Waste management: We Implemented a waste collection and management model by setting up a partnership with the waste management company DSG in Manado, that helped us since the beginning to set up a reliable logistic scheme and waste treatment, and with the tourism industry on the islands. We employ a team of local people to run our sorting stations both on Bangka Island and in Manado. 2. Awareness&Education: We created the teaching program “School on the Beach” for junior high schools that includes ecology lessons covering topics related to the marine environment and conservation. We raise awareness in the local community by teaching good waste management within schools, municipalities, and to the community in the regional capital Manado. 3. Research: We support research and innovation through scholarships and relationships with a number of universities, supporting students who are investigating the source, pathways and destination of plastic in the marine environment. 4. Corporate responsibility: We encourage local businesses to initiate waste management programs and we facilitate big business to implement CSR activities compatible with ours. We present our research and approach at international conferences. We do this to gain funding and share ideas with other inspiring companies to work together for a circular economy.