{"id":6899,"date":"2022-09-20T10:16:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T10:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.circularactionhub.org\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2022-09-20T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T12:57:09","slug":"circular-action-presents-solutions-to-waste-collection-in-two-global-circularity-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.circularactionhub.org\/circular-action-presents-solutions-to-waste-collection-in-two-global-circularity-events\/?lang=es","title":{"rendered":"Circular Action presents solutions to waste collection in two global circularity events"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cIt is time to increase collection in a socially inclusive way.\u201d<\/em> –\u00a0Thierry Sanders<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Last week, the Circular Action<\/span><\/a> 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<\/span><\/a> and Sustainable Challenge LATAM. They showcased how Circular Action Programmes (CAPs) can help companies and countries without Extended Producer Responsibilities (EPR) regulations achieve their waste collection targets together.<\/p>\n Circular Solutions Festival in Berlin<\/b><\/p>\n Thierry explained how companies can finance CAPs to issue independently certified circular credits to incentivise waste collection through performance-based payments to pickers, who are already working to provide this environmental service. The KOLEKT app manages the operation allowing the negotiation, monitoring and traceability of multi-material waste flow. Thierry was asked how appropriate an app is for informal pickers; he stressed that KOLEKT was designed with inclusion in mind to allow every picker to participate without necessarily owning a mobile phone. Learn more<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n In response to a great audience question about how this solution to waste collection ensures additionality, Thierry confirmed that the focus has been on harder-to-recycle materials. He gave the example of the ongoing Circular<\/span> Action Programme in Vietnam in partnership with Tetra Pak<\/span> which is contributing to waste collection of carton beverage packaging deemed hard to recycle and which has had no value for pickers. Learn more.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\nOn Monday 12 September, the first day of the Circular Solutions Festival in Berlin, Thierry Sanders<\/span><\/a> shared the stage with Circular Economy specialist Alessa Araiza<\/span><\/a> to present the completion of the pilot project ‘Bahia Circular’, implemented by BVRio and PREVENT Waste Alliance in San Pancho, Nayarit, Mexico<\/span><\/a>. They gave examples of inclusive recycling networks and financial mechanisms to enable traceability in the waste value chain in developing countries.<\/p>\n