What is Or-Tic?
Orange-Plastic, abbreviated as Or-Tic, is a community-based environmental innovation movement that makes the production of biodegradable plastics made from orange peel as the main activity. Or-Tic utilizes the availability of Pontianak Orange peel waste as a raw material for making environmentally friendly plastics.

Where is Or-Tic based?
Or-Tic is located in Pontianak City as its headquarter, but it can spread based on the location of Or-Tic Team. Or-Tic Team is a group of people who are willing to take part in this sociopreneur.

When is Or-Tic started?
Or-Tic was started on 3rd of August, 2019.

Who involves in Or-Tic?
Or-Tic was found by ourselves but we involve also students and wide society. We open a recruitment to find more volunteers via instagram. We have 3 volunteers already. Hence, we involve society with making them as our Team. They are consisted of 3 groups : logistic, production and marketing.

Why Or-Tic established?
Citrus commodities grow and develop well in West Kalimantan with the name Siam Orange or commonly known as Pontianak Orange (Citrus nobilis var. Microcarpa). Pontianak citrus processing with raw materials also produces waste in the form of skin, pulp and seeds. During this time, the waste is thrown away and has the potential to cause environmental pollution. Therefore, a solution is needed so that Pontianak Citrus processing waste can be used as raw material for other industries.
Pontianak Orange peel waste can be a raw material for making biodegradable plastics with further processing. One of the ways that can be done is to replace conventional plastic with biodegradable plastic. Biodegradable plastic can be produced with raw materials for plant products such as starch and cellulose. This is based on consideration of the abundant amount of orange peel waste.

How Or-Tic can have a wide impact?
Our tagline is about Nurturing Nature and Supporting Society. We nurture the nature by creating biodegradable plastic which is can be decomposed in only 12 weeks.

Also, we support the society by creating a profitable scheme for them. They are going to earn percentage of profit based on their productivity.

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Utilizing orange peel as a raw material for making biodegradable plastic


[SAVE THIS WORLD FROM PLASTICZILLA!]

Here we shows you a small fact in a small city around Indonesia, and of course around this wide world : Pontianak. We are here "producing" 120 tons of plastic waste EVERY NORMAL DAY! Holidays and New Year Eve are excluded. Could you imagine how many tons of plastic that big cities may product? Well we can say, Jakarta? Surabaya? Medan? In the other hand, this large amount of waste doesn't show a huge percentage of productivity. Most of rural communities here are economically passive. They are selling oranges, most of them, making such a great loss due to an over-surplus. The price is getting lower and lower. Kind of bad condition to have. So we are here now, Or-Tic provides you to have 12 weeks degradable bioplastic. How come? Or-Tic is produced from orange peel waste after we extract the cellulose inside. Or-Tic will take part in reducing plastic waste in order to save this beautiful world from huge degradation. Hence, we are also empowering communities to participate in Or-Tic production. To ensure that the Or-Tic marketing is on target, it is a strategy to cooperate with MSME in the culinary field. After the Or-Tic production and distribution process, it was subsequently implemented, collaboration with related parties such as the Non-Government Organization (NGO) based on the environment to educate the public about Or-Tic can be used extensively and implicates the environmental sustainability. Generally, Or-Tic raises the issue of environmental preservation addressing the high-waste plastic generated by the community by focusing the community's role in the program.



Now, we are struggling to compete with another plastic producers. We need a massive support from #BeSociopreneur to escalate our production scale and upgrade our empowering program. To get the #BeSociopreneur support, we need you to tap the love! 
Now join us to Nurturing Nature and Supporting Society, fellas!


VOTE Or-Tic for YCSE ACADEMY 2.0

After all, social enterprise is about to answering problems and questions among communities. 
There is a reason why a developing creative company is being called by “start-up”. For us, it is because these tiny companies start with a few people inside, trying to find out issues and problems in some communities. These companies also use those issues to upgrade community or society in general. 
But to start some upgrades, what we need to do is listening and understanding them directly. Statistics can speak a lot about data, but all you can have is just an assumption or big –wide picture. That kind of data seems to be very general, and in the end of the day you can barely find the community’s real issues. 
For social enterprise which sells product like us, we have learned that having deep interaction with customers will impact positively in our business cycle. This interaction will lead us to more insights and specific data about them. As we know, data is all we need to consider every step in our social enterprise, so the way to collect it is need to be proper. 
Along this time, we have trying to always do one of our strategies, called “Confirming Targets”. We have been considering that our one and only targets for short term are producers of snacks, who use plastics as their package. Every visit we make always gives us new data about customers. We have known the size of plastics they need, the color of product they want, even the price they wish. We appreciate all those little things as our capital to conduct new decision. 
Of course, we are about to improve the way we have this deep interaction, also to find effective and efficient methods to keep in touch with all our customer, anytime and anywhere.

Lesson Learned #4

Social enterprise is kind of challenging. 
There are 2 sides that need to be collaborated in social enterprise; those are profits and community service. If we as the founder are not ready to elaborate those big ideas, our goals will be just a utopia. Hence, there are many things to be considered, especially about the first capital that we could have: human resources. 
Gender roles and differences in teams are among the things that must be considered. This includes embrace gender specific traits. Everyone should believe that individual personal strength is unique. This uniqueness can give more “colors” in a social enterprise, which is very important. Because of the complexity of obstacles that we may face, we need to have a diverse point of view and many approach from many sides. 
Or-Tic was, and is concern about the urgency of gender roles and its uniqueness. Our top managers are consisted of different gender: male and female. With his masculine accuracy and ability to stay logical, our founder is fully responsible in whole production. It is not only about to product as many as we can, but also to guarantee that every product we make is safe and easy to use. Also, with her hospitality and ability to convince more people, our co-founder is concerning more about social impacts of this enterprise. It is not only about to make sure everybody has received their salaries based on the agreement, but also to take time with Or-Tic team. Little chit-chats and personal approach can also boost the productivity, so that’s the reason why we need a “feminine” role in here. 
Henceforth, all of our volunteers and manager, no wonder about their gender are, need to have a high endurance and persistence. If it well-built inside, it will bright outside.

Lesson Learned #3

It needs to be clear about how you will run your social enterprise. For an enterprise that produce something, we believe that the urgency of sustainability of production phase need to be prioritized. 

orange plastic has taken a forward step within this idea. We have conducted some relations with the producers of waste that we need. As one of our strategies, connecting resources has succesfully maintain our productivity all this time.

Lesson Learned#2

Dive in your passion!
Social enterprise is hard. It will be harder if you aren't dive in your passion. With strongly concern in your passion, you'll take easy every obstacles that may happened. Then you can convince other to get along with you. 