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

Contribution to social parity, or impact on social disparity

Equality

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

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)

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

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

Use waste as a resource

Consider opportunities to create greater value and align incentives that build on the interaction between products and services

Rethink the business model

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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   Kashtakari Panchayat was registered in 2010 primarily to support waste pickers and their families and their collectives. The support ranges from direct financial assistance to indirect support in the form of training, facilitation and research. KP would best be described as a bridge, connecting people to each other, connecting ideas to people and people to resources to implement those ideas. It facilitates and celebrates the interaction between one section of humanity and another, to create a better world for all. Our Vision KP envisions a world that is non discriminatory and socially just, economically equitable, environmentally sustainable, culturally plural, democratic, where diversity is valued and there is peace and harmony. The main objects of KP: Provide training and technical support to waste pickers and organizations and other informal workersSocially and educationally help workers in the informal economy, especially womenAdvocate for the rights of workers in the informal economyImprove livelihood opportunities for the working poorWork for the welfare of workers in the informal economy and their familiesTrain and help waste pickers for sustainable waste management and recyclingIncrease visibility of workers in the informal economy through research and publicationCommission and organize workshops, seminars, training programmes and coursesUndertake activities and programmes that further the objects of the organisation  

      
WE AIM TO ACHIEVE INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES, TOWNS AND CITIES.       
BY IMPLEMENTING EVIDENCE -DRIVEN AND PARTNERSHIPS-ENABLED SYSTEMIC SOLUTIONS  TO PERVASIVE CIVIC CHALLENGES.           Our focus areas that align with the world we want to see.       We focus on data driven and research based methodologies to focus on systemic overhaul of solid waste management processes of cities, towns and villages. We work with Urban Local Bodies and Gram Panchayats to optimize the use of existing resources to provide effective solid waste management services.
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      Our cities towns and villages are reeling under the effects of climate change. A direct consequence of the lack of trees and green cover in human habitats, is the heat island effect, as well as a lack of recreational spaces for children, youth and the elderly. We build and deliver solutions to address this problem.
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      We realize the importance water to support our green cover projects and to sustain green cover of any urban forest. However, since inception we have been focused on treating waste water or reusing water to support our projects. To be able to do so we have worked on Nala cleaning and setting up of Eco STP projects.
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 All our services are aligned to the following Sustainable Development Goals charted by the United Nation  

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The Incubation Network sources, supports and scales innovative solutions that tackle plastic pollution. Together with their diverse network of key partners, they work to optimize land-based plastic waste management, and advance a circular economy in South and Southeast Asia.

The network is an initiative by The Circulate Initiative and SecondMuse.

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The Incubation Network

EcoSattva Environmental Solutions

<p>EcoSattva Environmental Solutions is a women-led social enterprise based in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, that provides services in solid waste management, green cover management, and waste water management. Their project seeks to provide services that reduce leakage and also create income-generating and otherwise empowering pathways for women. Ecosattva Environmental Solutions is also a cohort participant of The Incubation Network’s Leakage and Livelihoods program.</p><p>The program pilots a business, led by women waste pickers, to provide bulk waste management, zero waste events, and event waste management services and it tests the markets in Aurangabad, Alibag, and Rajgurunagar, and select one market. It also trains women waste pickers in: driving, circular economy, zero waste &amp; waste reduction methods, financial &amp; business management, communication skills, and forward linkages. The Incubation Network is establishing a technical assistance partnership between EcoSattva and a locally-based NGO to address and mitigate any potential unintended consequences, such as the risk of gender-based violence.</p>