New Generation Recycling with ZeLoop
Recycling is a key component of a circular economy. Unfortunately, recycling is far from optimal today. Too much is not recycled that could be and to much that should be recyclable is not.
In a not too distant future, all that could be recycled will be and that which cannot will be replaced by recyclable items.
Easy things first
Recycling requires energy. All recycling plants should get all the energy they need from renewables to stop emitting greenhouse gases. Recycling requires collection and transportation. All transportation in the recycling industry should be done with electric vehicles.
Then there is the issue of “biodegradable” plastics. They do not biodegrade in three years anywhere, as proposed by the manufacturers, and when they do biodegrade they emit greenhouse gases.
Given the horrible facts about plastic pollution that have become easily accessible and available in social media, many envision a world without any plastic.
Circularity
In a perfect circular economy, all plastic would be recyclable and the recycling industry would not emit greenhouse gases.
Manufacturers, recyclers and consumers/citizens have to join forces and focus on the possibility of continuing to use plastic because of the convenience it brings but implementing a much more effective circular economy with functional recycling.
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Functional recycling implies that consumers will gather and bring their plastic post-consumer items to recycling centers for those items, whether it’s a blue bin or a recycling collection center.
A functional economy, circular or not, requires currency in circulation. Currency in circulation is the money used throughout a country’s economy to buy goods and services.
ZeLoop
ZeLoop will soon launch its app which will introduce, Eco-rewards, a new currency to compensate users that gather and bring plastic for recycling to collection centers or even blue bins.
ZeLoop will allow users to compete with each other with verified collection actions by comparing Eco-reward totals. Ask ploggers, who jog and pick up plastic all over the world, if recycling is not rewarding. Eventually, a recycling focused community will become a reality with the ZeLoop app.
ZeLoop users will be able to convert these crypto-currency rewards into standard currency with the app. Companies and organizations that want to participate in this new recycling economy will contribute to the standard currency available and ZeLoop will do the conversion.
We need currency to complete the circular economy and compensate the service provided by people who make recycling possible.
Conclusion
There are many forms of compensation for recycling but they have not given the results that we need. ZeLoop Eco-rewards are compatible with any existing system that compensates recyclers and they make a circular economy possible everywhere.
ZeLoop will make recycling both fun and functional.
Alberto Saavedra
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