Reducing plastic pollution the 3R Initiative way
Just over three years after its launch, the 3R Initiative which was founded by BVRio, Verra, Nestlé, Danone, Tetra Pak and others, has transformed from an idea to help solve the problem of plastic pollution into a fully functioning market-based approach with its component products now progressing independently. The 3R Initiative, named for its objectives […]
NEW GUIDELINES ON BEST PRACTICES FOR CREDIT SYSTEMS NOW AVAILABLE
New guidelines on best practices for credit systems related to the circular economy are now available in the Knowledge Hub. The document contains recommendations for better and more inclusive waste collection and recycling practices to improve livelihoods and strengthen the circular economy. The guidelines were developed by BVRio as part of the ‘Plastic Credits for […]
BVRio and UN-Habitat collaborate to enhance waste management in cities
BVRio and UN-Habitat signed a Memorandum of Understanding, this month, agreeing to collaborate to enhance waste management and resource efficiency in the world’s cities. The collaboration will be implemented with a focus on connecting local waste management activities and projects of UN-Habitat’s Waste Wise Cities’ Members and Affiliates, with global companies and investors, as well […]
Spotlight on Impact: Coopgaleão, Brazil «With funding we have been able to lease a conveyor belt to help with operations.»
The next in our series looking at the impact of additional funding on CAH projects, we meet CoopGaleão, a project operating in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Cooperative conducts solid waste collection and sorting in Rio de Janeiro city. They operate from a rented warehouse where they collect and sort approximately 40 tons of solid […]
CAH project featured in IUCN nature-based solutions ‘Blue Print’ series
The ‘Guanabara Bay clean-up’ project has featured in the new International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Blue Prints Series launched today. The series outlines business models and illustrates the investment structure of a number of Nature-based Solution (NbS) projects. Based on projects supported by IUCN’s Blue Natural Capital Financing Facility, the series of blueprints […]
CAH to join World Circular Economy Forum 2021 Virtual Expo
Circular Action Hub will be attending the World Circular Economy Forum from 13-15 September. Co-organised by the Government of Canada and the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, and hosted for the first time in North America, the World Circular Economy Forum brings together forward-looking thinkers and doers, and presents the world’s leading game-changers in the circular […]
Spotlight on Impact: “We can increase the pay, by 50%, of around 30 members who work as waste pickers and sorters”
In the next in our series looking at the impact of additional funding on CAH projects, we meet Coopama, operating in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Coopama was founded in 2004 in Rio de Janeiro and by 2020 had around 71 associates. The cooperative is very well developed and performs wide-scale solid waste recovery, collection, sorting, […]
Spotlight on Impact: Funding helps “dignify work and improve the quality of life of waste collectors”
In the first in our series looking at the impact of additional funding on CAH projects, we meet Bahía Circular, a project operating in Nayarit, Mexico. Bahía Circular is a network of non-profit communitarian organisations of waste collectors and recycling intermediaries that provide environmental services in the rapidly-growing touristic area of Bahia de Banderas, Nayarit, […]
Project Spotlight: Myanmar Recycles
The Myanmar Recycles project has been recently selected as one of eight 3R Pilot Projects that will test the Plastic Standard developed by VERRA on behalf of the 3R Initiative. The successful bid was quickly spotted by the local press in Myanmar and highlighted in this article published in The Myanmar Times. In Myanmar, just […]
Amazon river plastic project the 100th to be added to the Hub
The Circular Action Hub (CAH) has reached 100 registered projects, in just 12 month’s of operation. Each of the 100 initiatives are providing important environmental waste recovery services and are displayed in this international showcase aimed at connecting projects with funders. The hundredth project to be added was AACEAM Ambiental, an association with around 70 […]
