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Business case

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

Increase Awareness

Impact on the quantity or quality of jobs, and shifts in the labour market

Jobs

Impact on the health and happiness of human populations

Well-being

Contribution to social parity, or impact on social disparity

Equality

Efficiency gains on operations or transactions either through cultural or technological shifts

Productivity

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

Innovation

Scalability

Reduced green house gas emissions released into the biosphere

Reduce Emissions (SDG13)

Reduced use of virgin materials and/or an increase of the use of secondary and bio-based materials

Reduce Material Consumption (SDG12)

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 water and sewage services, including water collection and distribution, water treatment systems and sewage treatment facilities

Water and Sewage

Collecting waste from households and businesses by means of refuse bins, wheeled bins, containers, etc., and providing treatment, incineration, materials recovery and reclamation, and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste

Waste Management

Operating networks and software that enable the exchange and broadcasting of information, such as entertainment and internet software, television, cable, satellite or radio broadcasting systems, and cellular, wireless and/or fixed-line telecommunications services

Software and Communications

Producing electronics products for businesses and consumers, including cellular phones, personal computers, printers, servers, electronic computer components and peripherals, TVs, audio equipment, as well as household appliances, such as refrigerators, washing machines, etc.

Electronics and Appliances

Producing textile and leather products and processing them into apparel and accessories

Fashion and Textiles

Providing goods on the Internet, through mail order, or television, or providing goods in stores, including apparel, electronics, furniture, food and drug, etc.

Retail

Providing air, water, rail, and land transportation and related services for the distribution of goods, such as air freight, air courier and logistics services, maritime freight, marine courier and logistics services, rail freight, rail courier and logistics services, land freight, land courier and logistics services, including package and mail delivery and customs agents, as well as storage and warehouse facilities

Logistics Services

Refining and processing ores and producing ferrous and non-ferrous metal and glass products, including packaging

Metal and Glass

Extracting and gathering wood through forestry and producing wood and paper products

Wood and Paper

Producing and gathering crop and animal products from land and water through farming, hunting, and fishing

Agriculture

Processing and producing food and beverages for consumption

Food and Beverage

Utilise bio-based, reusable, non-toxic and non-critical materials

Regenerative materials

Employ technologies to gather and analyse data to provide insights on resource use

Data and insights

Employ online platforms to connect and improve information sharing between stakeholders

Digital platforms

Designing products to remove any barriers to recycling and enable easy recyclability

Design for recycling

Working together with customers to jointly create products fit for them

Co-creation

Takeback and return of products from customers after end-of-use

Takeback programmes

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

Online platforms

Developing or utilising online marketplaces to enable the peer-to-peer exchange of products and services

Peer-to-peer online marketplaces

Solidify definitions and create frameworks to support the understanding of the circular economy across contexts and maintain cohesive systems of data sharing, processing and storing.


 Knowledge Management

Regenerate strategies phase out hazardous or toxic materials and processes and substitute them with regenerative biomass resources. A circular economy aims to mimic natural cycles—by shifting to more regenerative farming practices, for example—while also maximising the share of circular biomass that enters the economy. Regeneration can happen both at the systems level (by designing regenerative processes) as well as at the product level (by switching synthetic to organic fertilisers, for example).

Regenerate

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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    Links in the chain   Distributors, processors, buyers and recyclers all have a place on the platform. And BanQu can do more than that — connecting people, systems, data, knowledge and resources.  More about tracking and tracing       

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 Zambian Breweries has expanded its BanQu automated payment system to the Manja Pamodzi recycling programme to financially empower collectors and ensure they are paid efficiently. The company has adopted the block chain technology following its successful introduction for buying of cassava from small-scale farmers in Luapula and Northern Provinces for use in its affordable Eagle Lager. The Manja Pamodzi project has launched the BanQu system for its aggregator sites in Chibolya – Kanyama compound and Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka. The project has created job opportunities across the recycling value chain for many Zambians, especially women and youths in communities of Lusaka. Zambian Breweries corporate affairs director Ezekiel Sekele, BanQu co-founder and CEO Ashish Gadnis and Manja Pamodzi staff recently visited Chibolya – Kanyama compound aggregator site and Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka where the BanQu technology was launched to promote financial inclusion. “This initiative warms our hearts at Zambian Breweries and re-energises our passion to do more for our communities concerning issues of smart drinking, sustainability and road safety through our Don’t Drink and Drive campaign,” said Sekele. “The online automated payment system BanQu brings dignity through the identification of the collectors in the recycling and circular packaging value chain. The digital payment programme is the backbone to AB InBev and Zambian Breweries Sustainability Goals of a skilled, connected and financially empowered community,” added Sekele. The project has been operating for more than four years in Lusaka’s townships, helping to change the lives of youths and women through financial empowerment. The project has taken youths away from engaging in social vices, such as drug and alcohol abuse, and into meaningful engagement, reducing poverty and crime. 
 

United States

South Africa

Austin

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Johannesburg

Minneapolis

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BanQu watches products and services move between suppliers, consumers and recyclers in real time

BanQu

<p>BanQu paves the way for a more transparent, traceable and most importantly equitable supply chain through non-crypto blockchain technology from the producer to the end customer. The platform connects people, organisations and assets to help global brands to cut costs, bring order and transparency to their supply chains, and elevate millions of people out of extreme poverty at the same time.</p>