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Waste pollution is one of the biggest and most urgent global challenges mankind faces today. This issue increases together with population growth, fast technological progress and is constantly reinforced by capitalism driven overproduction. Modern societies experience incredibly dangerous moment in history, with highest social inequality rates ever, escalation of various -isms, along with short-sighted populism that both harm democracy and endanger minority groups. Individual people and whole communities suffer social apathy considering themselves powerless and unable to take actions to influence ongoing global processes in line with their best interests and values.
By establishing a multi-stakeholder waste management co-op within our local community we are addressing the challenges of better waste management, recovering renewable resources, reinforcement of democracy, as well as local communities development and empowerment. We are combining operations, forces and resources of various urban stakeholders: commercial companies, governmental institutions and non-governmental organisations, city council, other 6R’s initiatives (Rethink, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot) and informal movements. Above all, we reconsider trash as potential renewable resources. We aid companies and organisations in reducing their waste production and reusing renewable resources, supporting their way to sustainability. We collect renewable resources that can be repurposed or up-cycled to establish up-cycling and redistribution centres dispersed in different neighbourhoods of Warsaw. We network 6R’s community, urban projects, municipal efforts, as well as waste producers with potential receivers: other companies and organisations, up-cyclers and individual customers. We engage local communities' human potential into reviewing, gathering, renewing, redistributing and linking processes. All together we co-create a circular economy environment within the city of Warsaw.
We are inspired by various different urban waste management & circular economy cooperatives and initiatives:
We hope for mass overproduction of goods to stop, replaced by a circular economy closed-loop system, local production and reproduction of things with minimal impact on the environment. We presume that local communities have enough resources, skills, and experience, to meet their common needs and aspirations; to create a healthier, happier and more secure society.
We consider cooperatives as a one of the most powerful means of building a fair and prospering self empowered community. We believe that social and solidarity economy could contribute to climate considered de-growth, community welfare and social equity.
Mentors with the following experience: