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, […]
“Co-operative is a space to promote sorority”
Iara Meiri de Melo Moura Silva, 40, mother of two, began working in the recycling market over 20 years ago with her mother, who came to Rio de Janeiro from the Northeast at 17 years old. Iara is one of the female leaders in waste collector cooperatives in the State of Rio de Janeiro, in […]
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 […]
“We are an eternal start-up. We evolve constantly”
The recycling market in Rio de Janeiro is not for “amateurs”. And those in charge of the management of many of the existing cooperatives are female entrepreneurs. In the context of the COVID pandemic, in particular, it is necessary to adapt, try out new processes, and take risks to generate more business. Read below one […]
Inspirational women led recycling cooperatives: ACERJ
Born into a traditional family of waste pickers in Rio de Janeiro, Glória de Souza dos Santos, 45, has worked for over three decades in the recycling market. She was brought up in Laureano, a neighbourhood of Jardim Gramacho, the largest “recycling centre of the State of Rio de Janeiro”, where together with her mother […]
