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Business case

Impact on the availability of resources as well as their effect on living organisms, ecosystems, and components of the environment.

Ecological Impact

Impacts on the social fabric of the community and well-being of the individuals and families.

Social Impact

Impacts on the financial condition of a company, as well as the the economicconditions of its stakeholders and on economic systems at local, national, andglobal levels.

Economic Impact

Impact on increased knowledge and understanding as a result of the case study

Increase Awareness

Impact on the health and happiness of human populations

Well-being

Direct and indirect effects that increase revenues or the potential for new revenues, for example from new products, customer segments, partnerships or business models

Revenue Potential

Impact on the ease of innovation, and facilitating uptake of innovations

Innovation

Reduced green house gas emissions released into the biosphere

Reduce Emissions (SDG13)

Minimise waste through diversion: Instead of sending waste to landfill, it is redirected into other industrial processes for handling, treatment, recycling, recovery, or reuse in various forms. 

Minimise waste through design: At the outset of a process of project, plan and design such that there is zero waste or minimal waste during production, use, and at end of life. 

Minimise Waste (SDG12)

Providing specialist services to support consumers, businesses, andgovernments

Professional Services

Producing and providing services that utilise the creative talent of individuals to generate intellectual property, including movies and television shows, music, live performances, advertising, marketing or public relations services, newspapers, magazines and books, and commercial printing services

Creative Services

Utilise waste streams as a source of secondary resources and recover waste for reuse and recycling

Use waste as a resource

Account for the systems perspective during the design process, to use the right materials, to design for appropriate lifetime and to design for extended future use

Design for the future

Use digital, online platforms and technologies that provide insights to track and optimise resource use, strengthen connections between supply chain actors, and enable the implementation of circular models



Incorporate digital technology

Reuse, repurpose, and recycle waste streams within the same industry

Valorise waste streams - closed loop

Designing to reduce waste during production and use

Design out waste

Employ online platforms to connect and improve information sharing between stakeholders

Digital platforms

Transforming waste products, materials for reuse within the same industry

Closed loop upcycling

Designing products so they produce as little waste as possible during production

Design for minimal waste

Developing or utilising online platforms to enable circular economy opportunities through information, product or service offering

Online platforms

Cycle strategies aim to cycle and reuse materials at their highest value: they maximise the volume of secondary materials re-entering the economy, ultimately minimising the need for virgin material inputs and therefore also narrowing flows. Of course, virgin materials will always be needed to a degree: all materials degrade and can’t be cycled infinitely, use energy, and require blending with virgin materials to maintain strength and functionality.

Cycle

Impacts

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Industries

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The principles of a circular economy concern designing out waste, regenerating ecosystems and keeping items in use. Decoupling the economy from material flows—improving the rate of resource productivity faster than the economic growth rate—is also a consistent guide. By evolving with the growing number of applications of circular economy principles, and consolidating these strategies across thematic areas, Circle Economy’s Key Elements Framework (KE) renders the elements of the circular economy salient and serves as a basis to derive contextual strategies and interventions. 


The Framework consists of:
- Core Elements: Activities directly handling product or material flows; and uniquely,
- Enabling Elements: those that remove obstacles for core actors.


Key elements of the circular economy

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Circle Economy's framework of strategies and activities that define the circular economy

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Based on the work of [Bocken et al. (2016)](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309699661_Product_design_and_business_model_strategies_for_a_circular_economy), the Four Flows Framework serves as a simple framework for managing resource flows in a circular economy by using less (Narrow), using for longer (Slow), using again (Cycle), and using clean, regenerative materials and energy (Regenerate).

These different principles of circular economy can be applied to our socioeconomic metabolism: we can design stocks like buildings, infrastructure, machinery, and vehicles to be rich resource mines for the future, and design manufactured goods and consumables to be cycled and made regenerative. Furthermore, the focus must also centre on getting more value out of fewer materials. Achieving the aims of a circular economy—minimising material use, regenerating the Earth, and preventing material losses—can be done through these four key strategies mentioned above.

Source: Circle Economy. (2023). *[The circularity gap report 2023](https://www.circularity-gap.world/2023)* (p.22). Amsterdam: Circle Economy. 

Four Flows Framework

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Half a million people produce
less waste thanks to us.The best waste is that one, which is never produced.

By 2020 we aim to become a leader in innovative technologies and equipment for waste management by helping to reduce solid waste and thereby prevent waste disposal.
We are a young team of people who care about the environment and are constantly looking for innovative solutions to improve the waste management of our countries. Our mission is to reduce the amount of mixed municipal waste, prevent its occurrence and increase sorting.We emphasize the prevention of biodegradable waste. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is to support domestic composting. Because by composting, people process biowaste directly in their gardens,  biowaste no longer has to travel so far to landfills.The idea „For Less Waste“ is spreading especially with local authorities where we are a comprehensive supplier of products, smart systems, technologies and information campaigns to help prevent bio-waste. We also run the largest online store for composters and accessories in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Hungary.Our solutions have had a positive impact on over 500,000 inhabitants and we are a partner to more then 450 villages and towns in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Hungary.

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       Prinášame riešenia pre využitie bioodpadu a zásadné zlepšenie výsledkov.        Naučíme občanov, že za zodpovedné správanie k odpadom budú spravodlivo odmenení.        Pomáhame získať nevyhnutný prehľad pre efektívne riadenie odpadového hospodárstva.          Odporučíme spôsoby, ako nevyhadzovať peniaze na skládku a optimalizovať hospodárenie.        Pracujeme na obnovení a zachovaní kvality klímy a prírody pre ďalšie generácie.        Odkláňame bioodpad zo skládok a premieňame ho na zdroj živín.       Inšpirujte sa, ako dosiahnuť skvelé výsledky.  Najlepšie vám poradí ten, kto vie čo sa u vás deje - náš regionálny manažér je aj vo vašom kraji.     60 000 tonbioodpadu vďaka kompostovaniu neskončilo na skládke.        občanov v pokrokových samosprávach využívajú spravodlivý systém odpadov ELWIS.   o 00 %menej komunálneho odpadu vzniklo v Košeci vďaka evidovaniu odpadov a spolupráci s občanmi.       domácností zlepšili nakladanie s odpadom, vďaka osvete a lepšiemu odpadovému hospodárstvu ich obce.   4 000 tonCO2 neuniklo do ovzdušia vďaka domácemu kompostovaniu.  

 JRK Waste Management was awarded a Green Company award in 2016 for its project “For Less Waste”, which promotes home composting.

Each inhabitant of Slovakia produces about 327 kg of waste on an annual basis. Up to 45% of this waste is constituted by biodegradable waste. The Slovak company JRK Waste Management aims to reduce the amount of mixed municipal waste by increasing its separation. Since 2010 it has been working with municipalities and individuals to promote home composting. In 2015 the company reduced the amount of greenhouse gases by over 4,000 tonnes and prevented the dumping of 650,000 hectolitres of biodegradable waste. Its electric composter with polyextremophilic bacteria is the only alternative to compulsory collection of kitchen and restaurant waste. The company’s solutions helped municipalities make savings of ten thousands of euros. JRK Waste Management’s project  “For Less Waste”,  which promotes home composting, received a Via Bona Slovakia  Award in the Green Company category in 2015.


We talked to Radoslav Košík, JRK Waste Management’s CEO, about the company’s CRS activities in 2016. 
What did the Via Bona Slovakia Award for 2015 in the Green Company category mean to you?
In which direction have you developed in the past year?
We focused on an analysis of our clients’ real needs – especially on the needs of municipalities – in the area of waste management. We want to accomplish our mission – to reduce the amount of mixed municipal waste by increasing its separation. The new Waste Act brought changes to the management of biodegradable waste. It set forth that all related costs are funded directly from municipalities’ budgets. We therefore believe that all stakeholders will do their best to responsibly separate not only glass, metals, plastics, and paper. By the way, these do not present strain on the municipal budget because all costs incurred are reimbursed by a producers’ responsibility organization. We believe that all stakeholders will try as hard as possible to reduce the amount of biodegradable waste, which would otherwise end up in mixed municipal waste containers. Such waste will not end up on dumpsites but can be transformed to compost directly by its producers – citizens. The best waste is zero waste.
What sustainable or CRS activities are you currently involved in? What projects can we look forward to? 
The philosophy of our e-shops, which we operate in three European countries, has been expanded by the idea of waste reduction. Our portfolio now includes products which help prevent waste production. Besides all kinds of composters, we sell reusable glass and plastic bottles, environment-friendly household detergents made from soap nuts, or organic cotton “bags” to replace HDPE bags for fruit and vegetables in supermarkets. In the near future we are planning to expand our portfolio to include a new product category – compostable packaging. We believe that each responsible restaurateur, hotel owner, and popular street food cook will adopt it.
We are very proud that several days ago we succeeded in introducing our long-term big project to the market – a smart waste registration system called ECONIT, which will help hundreds of municipalities in the Czech Republic to separate up to 84% of waste. It will reduce dumping, increase separation and municipal waste income. Yes, what you are reading is correct – not costs, but income.
We are happy to have helped the non-profit sector as well. We have successfully started cooperation with the Circular Economy Institute, for the second time in a row composted all kitchen and restaurant waste produced at the Pohoda music festival, and for the first time collected and composted organic waste directly at the place of origin, at Bratislava’s market called Dobrý trh in Panenská street. I would also like to mention a successful introduction of composting at the Ministry of Environment, which thus became a positive example for the others, and our membership in the Slovak Green Building Council. We believe that our mutual cooperation will result in beautiful and meaningful waste reduction projects.
 

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A young team of people who care about the environment and are constantly looking for innovative solutions to improve the waste management of our countries. JRK's mission is to reduce the amount of mixed municipal waste, prevent its occurrence and increase sorting.

JRK is emphasising the prevention of biodegradable waste. It offers solutions for households, municipalities and the food industry/catering. 

JRK is a comprehensive supplier of products, smart systems, technologies and information campaigns to help prevent bio-waste. It is also the largest online store for composters and accessories in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Hungary.

JRK Waste Management

JRK Waste management is a company made by a group of enthusiastic young professionals who constantly looking for innovative solutions to improve the waste management of the countries. The aim of JRK is to reduce the amount of mixed municipal waste, prevent its occurrence and increase sorting. Picture Zero waste photo created by freepik - www.freepik.com