We aspire to operate at the epicenters of the plastic crisis, working hand in hand with sustainable businesses around the world to achieve measurable impact. We encourage the elimination of unnecessary plastic while providing opportunities to enable a circular economy through prevention, reuse, substitution and recycling to avoid plastic waste from leakage into nature.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to accelerate the transition to a circular economy and to build a future where no plastic waste ends up in nature.

OUR STORY
The United Nations Environment Programme reports that about 400 million metric tons of plastic waste are produced each year, with an estimated 10 million metric tons ending up in the ocean.

In the face of this enormous crisis, Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX) was established in 2019 in the Philippines - one of the epicenters of the plastic pollution crisis. PCX is the world’s first fully integrated and blockchain-protected plastic offset program that offers brands a way to achieve their sustainability goals by showing them that there is an effective, achievable way to clean up their plastic waste.
In 2022, our vision to accelerate impact led to the creation of PCX Markets. This global platform empowers purchasers to select credits from a wide range of projects, including community-based collection programs in Thailand, recycling operations in India, and more, all accredited through PCX or Verra standards.
OUR IMPACT
PCX has enabled more than 32,000 Metric Tons of plastic waste to be cleaned up and invested over US$2.7 million to support new plastic waste collection capacity and other circular economy initiatives. In addition, many projects directly empower communities with socio-economic lift and cleaner living environments.
All credits sold have received PCX’s well-established and publicly available Plastic Pollution Reduction Standard (PPRS) accreditation, which was the first of its kind when it was launched in March 2020.

PCX Markets
Management Team

NANETTE MEDVED-PO
Founder & Executive Chair
- Generation HOPE Inc., Founder, Philippines’ First B-Corp
- Forbes Hero of Philanthropy
- WWF Philippines, Trustee
- Finance and Entrepreneurship, Babson College

SEBASTIAN DIGRANDE
Chief Executive Officer
- BigLots Board Member
- EVP Strategy & Chief Customer Officer, Gap Inc.
- Senior Partner, BCG
- MBA, Wharton
- BSEE, Georgia Tech

DIPENDRA JAIN
Chief Product & Technology Officer
- 3x entrepreneur
- Skyscanner, Accenture, HP, Dell
- AI & ML, UT Austin
- MBA IMD Lausanne

Nils Knoop
Marketing & Communications Director
- Seventh Generation, Global Marketing & Advocacy
- Ben & Jerry's, Integrated Marketing & Comms
- Nike, Corporate Communications
- M.Sc., German Sports University

ILUSION FARIAS
Impact
- Managing Director, Friends of HOPE Inc.
- Former Executive Director, Cremos
- MPA Harvard Kennedy School

MEG ANNE SANTOS
Sustainability Campaign Manager
- Former Corporate Sustainability and Operations, Nestle
- Chemical Engineer
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS & ADVISORS

HELGA VANTHOURNOUT
Board Member
- Director, Wealth of Flows Consulting
- Strategic Advisor, ADM Capital Foundation
- Senior Expert, McKinsey & Company
- MBA, IMD
- MSc Env. Policy, IIIEE
- MSc Env. Engineering, Ghent University

MICHAEL GILMORE
Board Member
- UN PRI International Working Group
- on Plastics, Member
- Albizia Capital, Research Director
- MBA SOAS University of London

GIDEON AGAR
Board Member
- Tradelegs, CEO
- Patriarch Partners, Managing Partner
- MBA Harvard Business School

SHEILA MARCELO
Board Advisor
- Care.com, Founder New Enterprise
- Associates, Venture Partner
- MBA Harvard Business School
- JD Harvard Law School
WHERE WE OPERATE
We’re starting at the epicenter of it all, focusing on countries hit worst by the plastic pollution crisis. From offices in the Philippines, the United States, and Singapore, we intend to expand cleanup operations to the top 10 most plastic polluted countries in the world.
