Driven By Purpose, Inspired by Progress

Bringing together diverse backgrounds and expertise from the public sector, nonprofits, businesses, and consultancies, we are a passionate group of changemakers.

MISSION

Our mission is to redesign human systems for the good of people and the planet by developing innovative, scalable solutions.

At Delterra, we focus on the world’s most complex systemic environmental challenges, where incentives, information, and infrastructure are misaligned, making them appear too hard, too complex, or too costly to fix. To start, we’re tackling the broken recycling system in the global South.

OUR VISION

We envision a world where human activities protect and restore a healthy planet.

Today, we are reimagining and redesigning the recycling systems in Argentina and Indonesia. Over the next few years, we plan to scale our operations to other countries struggling with the growing waste crises across Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

In the coming years, we aim to add other initiatives to our portfolio, all with the mission of developing innovative scalable solutions that redesign human systems for the good of people and the planet.

Founding Story

2018

McKinsey & Company founded McKinsey.org, a private corporate foundation, to develop and incubate innovative approaches to the world’s most complex environmental and social challenges.

2019

McKinsey.org launched Rethinking Recycling to help cities and communities transform their recycling and waste management systems, effectively improving environmental outcomes and boosting circularity while benefiting health, livelihoods and the economy.

2021

Having reached an inflection point where we were ready to further accelerate our impact, Rethinking Recycling transitioned out of McKinsey.org to become the flagship initiative of Delterra, a new independent environmental nonprofit. McKinsey & Company continues to support Delterra’s work and remains our Founding Partner.

2022

We are rapidly scaling our work in Indonesia and Argentina, with our flagship program Rethinking Recycling on track to reach 1.5M people with recycling and waste management services. Meanwhile with our second program, Plastic IQ, we are helping companies in Indonesia and Brazil rethink their packaging strategies with circularity in mind.