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Reuse Commons

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:42:54 +0000

Reuse Commons#

Reuse Commons is a toolkit to help create commons-based local systems for the reuse of excess materials. It operates on three layers of articulation:

Generative Mapping
Stakeholder Profiles
Exchange Protocols

Generative Mapping#

Reuse Commons starts from a geographic map of the city or region, on top of which participants locate actors in multiple sectors that can potentially integrate their reuse commons: repair professionals, hardware stores, waste sorting centres, recycling facilities, second-hand shops, technical schools, and any other type of organisation that proves relevant for material reuse on a local scale. In some cases, it is also useful to perform a mapping of material flows - how do discarded, broken, donated, unused goods circulate - or not - in the region.

ThingData

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:18:49 +0000

ThingData#

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Summary#

ThingData is the design concept of an open and collectively governed database to help achieve a longer lifetime for goods and materials. Recycling alone cannot cope with the escalating volume of waste produced every day. ThingData enables alliances between diverse stakeholders to generate, evaluate, maintain, and publicly offer data about material products and objects and how to maintain, transform and revalue them. Relevant data are, for instance, entries on how to reuse different kinds of products through repairs, adaptations, replacements and substitutions, as well as the appropriate measures for properly recycling and disposing of them. ThingData helps boost policies and initiatives of waste prevention in line with principles of a more circular economy, right to repair and other related fields. It is open-source and collectively governed technology, providing benefits for diverse stakeholders and creating economic opportunities.

Reuse Academy

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:13:51 +0000

Reuse Academy#

TL;DR#

Preventing waste is more effective than managing it. The Reuse Academy focuses on education to bridge critical gaps in the circular economy, with a particular focus on awareness about social-environmental issues. The Academy offers education on roles related to valuing, repairing, refurbishing, upcycling, and recirculating goods and materials before recycling.

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Quick links#

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Motivation#

Research shows that the best way to reduce the impact of unwanted and unused materials is intervening even before they are considered waste. In other words, investing on waste prevention with the goal of reducing and reusing is generally more effective than merely increasing the collection of recyclable materials. Reuse Academy contributes with professional educational and data resources to support the systemic reuse of goods and objects.

School of Reuse

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:03:47 +0000

School of Reuse#

TL;DR#

Preventing waste is more effective than managing it. The School of Reuse focuses on reuse education to bridge critical gaps in the circular economy.

Update on 04.11.2024: this project was renamed and the content copied to the page Reuse Academy. Please follow new developments there.

Quick links#

Text about the role of circular material valuer.

Introduction#

Research indicates that the best way to reduce the impact of unwanted and unused materials is intervening before they are considered waste. In other words, waste prevention with the goal of reducing and reusing is generally more effective than collecting materials for recycling, incineration or landfilling. The School of Reuse will contribute with professional educational and data resources to support the reuse of materials.