KOLEKT in demand for EPR legislation development
Fresh from discussions with the South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme member countries about financing options for addressing plastic pollution, Kolekt Founder, Thierry Sanders, met with the Kolekt app development team in India last week to discuss future developments that will both improve user experience, but also further develop the architecture for a suite of EPR […]
Digital waste management solution study and pilots for African countries underway
Circular Action is undertaking a study and pilot to establish if a digital waste management solution could improve waste collection and recycling in Southern Africa, starting with Angola and Mozambique. The five-month long study builds on Circular Action’s experience of waste management in developing countries, and its project using the KOLEKT waste management app in […]
Pilot project encourages households in Rio de Janeiro to recycle more
A waste recycling cooperative in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is participating in a pilot project run by Circular Action Hub founder BVRio and the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (Alliance) to encourage higher levels of recycling by households. The project will also provide additional income to waste pickers who sort the material, with the potential […]
BVRio helps waste picker cooperatives receive R$ 3.9 million in investment
BVRio assisted the cooperative Coopama in applying a social project approved in a recent public selection to add value to the solid waste disposal generated by Petrobras facilities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Coopama has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with BVRio to receive support from our circular economy team to implement an investment […]
Circular Action presents solutions to waste collection in two global circularity events
“It is time to increase collection in a socially inclusive way.” – Thierry Sanders Last week, the Circular Action team, Director Thierry Sanders and Circular Economy specialist, Maria Accioly, flew to participate in two brilliant circularity events taking place in Berlin, Germany, and in Quito, Ecuador, run by PREVENT Waste Alliance and Sustainable Challenge LATAM. They […]