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Precious PlasticOpen-source system of machines, blueprints and tools that lets anyone start recycling plastic locally.Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB): inclusive recycling modelSecond-level organization that brings together cooperatives of traditional waste pickers in Bogotá. The ARB organizes informal recyclers so they can operate as providers of the public waste recovery service, defending their legal recognition, their remuneration for recovered material and their formal inclusion in the circular economy chain. It is a Latin American benchmark for inclusive recycling and got the Constitutional Court to order the District to integrate waste pickers into waste management contracting; in 2013 a public payment system for the recovery activity was established.Asomefama and Camharina: shrimp waste flour in TumacoAsociación de Mujeres Emprendedoras para un Futuro Amigable con el Medio Ambiente (Asomefama), made up mostly of women heads of household and victims of the armed conflict in Tumaco, founded by sisters Jacqueline and Yesy Sevillano. They recover shrimp exoskeletons and heads that used to be dumped into the Pacific and transform them into 'Camharina', a protein-rich flour (washing, seven-hour dehydration at 80°C, milling and packaging; ~800 kg of shells per month). They thus close a loop on a local fishing waste stream by turning it into a marketable food, with scientific and business support from the CircularEconomy4Colombia program.Basura Cero program (Bogotá Humana)Public policy for integrated waste management implemented by the Bogotá mayor's office (Gustavo Petro administration) within the Bogotá Humana development plan starting in December 2012. It sought a cultural shift in the perception of waste by articulating separation at the source, extended producer responsibility, reduced landfill disposal and, above all, the inclusion of informal waste pickers as providers of the waste recovery service. It leveraged the existing informal infrastructure and aimed to divert around 20% of waste from the landfill. It lost continuity after the change of administration (2016), with a heavily questioned recycling model.Community circular economy in San Andrés CholulaInitiative that combines the creation of the first municipal regulation in Puebla (second in Mexico) with mandatory, standardized waste separation, with a support process for citizen groups to build collective circular economy ventures. Through virtual workshops (16 groups, 51 participants) and more than 90 hours of mentoring, social CANVAS methodology and design thinking were applied so that residents, waste recoverers and microenterprises could design circular business models and collaborative inclusive recycling networks.Mi cocina no contamina: used cooking oil collection for biodiesel in Mexico CityUrban circular economy program that collects used cooking oil waste (RAUC) from public markets, restaurants and households in Mexico City and transforms it into biodiesel/bioadditives at the Bioadditives Plant of the Central de Abasto, to fuel clean public transport. It operates through Sedema with collection points in 65 markets and boroughs; in the Cuauhtémoc borough, with technical support from Fundación Kolibrie Energy, 35 containers collect 370 liters per day, produce 11,000 liters of biodiesel per month and prevent the contamination of 440 million liters of water monthly. The original pilot in markets was documented academically by Sheinbaum et al. (2015).
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Precious Plastic Version 4 releaseOne Army / onearmy.earth · 2020 · reportdocumentConceptualizing the circular economy: An analysis of 114 definitionsResources, Conservation and Recycling (Elsevier), vol. 127, pp. 221-232 · 2017 · paperdocumentThe Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Concept and Application in a Global ContextJournal of Business Ethics (Springer), vol. 140, no. 3, pp. 369-380 (primera publicación online 2015) · 2017 · paperdocument