EMULSA collaboration models with entities that manage second-hand shops.
Published on 17 August 2020
Spain
This is the good practice's implementation level. It can be national, regional or local.
About this good practice
EMULSA has drawn up different agreements with private companies, non-profit organizations and social insertion companies, allowing for social and green employment to be promoted as well as the reduction of waste generation and the increase in recycling and re-use of objects susceptible to a second life.
Second-hand clothes.
Through an agreement with Caritas-Koopera, 68 containers have been installed on public roads for the deposit and collection of clothes. As a complement to this collection, Karitas has installed a second-hand clothing store in one of the most commercial streets of the city in which the design, decoration and distribution by colors play a very important role for the perception of the customer, giving the feeling of being inside an ordinary clothing store.
Furniture.
In 2018, an agreement was signed with EMAUS by which a specific collection, directly within citizens' homes, of furniture or belonging that were in good enough condition to be used by other people. EMULSA is in charge of the telephone service and the allocation of days and hours for collection. EMAUS is in charge of the home collection of the goods and their subsequent sale in its own stores. With the economic benefits following the sales, EMAUS supports the project of labor insertion of people at risk of social exclusion.
Second-hand clothes.
Through an agreement with Caritas-Koopera, 68 containers have been installed on public roads for the deposit and collection of clothes. As a complement to this collection, Karitas has installed a second-hand clothing store in one of the most commercial streets of the city in which the design, decoration and distribution by colors play a very important role for the perception of the customer, giving the feeling of being inside an ordinary clothing store.
Furniture.
In 2018, an agreement was signed with EMAUS by which a specific collection, directly within citizens' homes, of furniture or belonging that were in good enough condition to be used by other people. EMULSA is in charge of the telephone service and the allocation of days and hours for collection. EMAUS is in charge of the home collection of the goods and their subsequent sale in its own stores. With the economic benefits following the sales, EMAUS supports the project of labor insertion of people at risk of social exclusion.
Resources needed
68 street containers for used clothes.
Collector trucks.
Stores and warehouses
Collector trucks.
Stores and warehouses
Evidence of success
Second-hand clothes:
1.042.974 kg (2018)
Furniture:
20.211 kg (2018)
1.042.974 kg (2018)
Furniture:
20.211 kg (2018)
Potential for learning or transfer
Waste management is a challenge facing all European regions in the coming years. A way must be sought to reduce waste generation without affecting the citizen's quality of life or compromising the economy of the regions. Better and more sustainable waste management is possible. In this management, the reuse of objects, goods and products plays an important role.
Likewise, reaching agreements with social entities combines this objective of environmental sustainability with other social objectives of insertion of certain groups at risk of exclusion.
Likewise, reaching agreements with social entities combines this objective of environmental sustainability with other social objectives of insertion of certain groups at risk of exclusion.
Further information
Website
Good practice owner
Organisation
EMULSA
Spain
Principado de Asturias
Contact
Head of Waste Management Service