CAT Africa

Business case

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

Jobs

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)

Reduced use and withdrawal of water and rate of recycling and reuse of water

Save Water (SDG6)

Producing transporation equipment and providing services for thetransportation of goods and people

Transportation and Logistics

Providing air, water, rail, and land transportation for passengers, such as airlines, airports, ferries, cruise-ships, tour boat operators, marine ports, railways, train stations, tour bus operators, vehicle rental, and taxi companies, travel agencies and related services

Passenger Transport Services

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

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

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

Valorise waste streams - closed loop

Reuse, repurpose, and recycle waste streams within other industries

Valorise waste streams - open loop

Recover waste energy or generate fuels and energy from waste streams

Energy recovery from waste

Designing to reduce waste during production and use

Design out waste

Designing to enable multiple uses and lifecycles of a product and its materials

Design for cyclability

Slow strategies aim to keep materials in use for as long as possible, for example through design for durability and repairability. A more circular economy is also a slower one: materials, components, and products—and even buildings and infrastructure—that we lock in stocks are made to last. This will lower material demand in the long run, in essence also serving to narrow resource flows.

Slow

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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     A compact micro-refining unit which regenerates oil waste into second generation petroleum products will help a Cameroon port's sustainability efforts. Ecoslops has signed a letter of intent with Valtech Energie for a Mini-P2R unit to be installed in the Port of Kribi. Paris, France-based Ecoslops plans to provide various services including the sale of a Mini-P2R, local integration, the training of operators and multi-year technical support. This development comes in addition to a new installation set up by Valtech locally to collect and treat oily waste in Cameroon."The Mini-P2R will allow to economically upgrade this waste into oil products and also offers the advantage of being able to treat used lub oil, a significant and problematic source of pollution in numerous countries," said Ecoslops.Aqua Flore agreement Ecoslops signed an agreement with Aqua Flore, based at the Port of Agadir in Morocco, for the first industrial Mini-P2R unit at the beginning of 2020. Construction is underway, however, the restarting of business following the COVID-19 lockdown has been gradual and slower than anticipated, said the company. Installation is planned for the first half of 2021 instead of the end of 2020 as initially planned.Ecoslops said this second agreement with Valtech Energie demonstrates a high degree of interest in  solutions to treat all types of oily waste locally and according to the principles of the circular economy"The Mini-P2R gives a second life to these wastes, which are harmful to health and the environment, in the form of new oil products, and therefore helps to effectively combat the pollution linked to the illegal dumping of these residues in rivers and oceans," the company said.     Previous Article   Next Article         World-first 5G-controlled intermodal cranes to install at EWG terminal by Kuenz Read more    The world’s most advanced terminal-based Reefer monitoring solution is now available on Android! Read more    JCB is set to reduce production levels at UK factories due to anticipated component shortages from C... Read more    A new milestone for Kuenz. Norfolk Southern Railway has ordered six Kuenz Freeriders – 11 Wide and 1... Read more    The Polish company Centrum Logistyczno Inwestycyjne Poznań II Sp. z o.o. is going to extend its inte... Read more    The company Linz Service GmbH will reconstruct its Terminal in Linz, in the East of Austria, and awa... Read more    View all    

Africa

Morocco

Cameroon

Kribi

Agadir

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Eco Slops

Valtech Energie

<p>The french-based company Ecoslops is expanding its technology throughout African ports by signing agreements with Aqua Flore, based at the Port of Agadir, Morocco and with Valtech Energie in the Port of Kribi, Cameroon for the installation of a Mini-P2R unit. This unit gives a second life to oil wastes, in the form of new products which helps to effectively combat the pollution linked to the illegal dumping of the residues in rivers and ocean.</p>