Symbols to Exchange Plastic Bottles for Various Items

The Plastic Bank

We make plastic waste a currency to help reduce global poverty and plastic waste. We set up plastic recycling markets that allow people to collect and exchange plastic waste for cash, items, and services. We are currently operating in Haiti and will be expanding world wide very soon.

We need to create signage that uses symbols to show what can be exchanged for plastic bottles. We have just added solar power to our plastic exchange markets. This allows us to go beyond just exchanging plastic for cash. Now anyone can exchange plastic bottles for cell phone charging, cell phone minutes, access to WIFI, light to study at night, and charcoal for cooking. The symbols must be large enough to see and understand from a distance.

We need to create some universal symbols for these services. Not everyone can read or even speak the same language in the places we operate.

There should be a symbol for each type of exchange.

Plastic Bottles for Cash symbol
Plastic Bottles for WIFI symbol
Plastic Bottles for Cell Phone Charging
Plastic Bottles for Cell Phone Minutes
Plastic Bottles for Video Chatting
Plastic Bottles for Cooking Charcoal

The symbols should work independently but also look good side by side

I've attached a picture of the solar powered recycling market that people exchange plastic for cash, items and services. The signage would need to be visible for people walk by this location. Although we exchange many types of plastic, it will be easiest to use a plastic bottle as the main example of what can be exchanged.