For organisations that already hold the material — and the pressure to report it

Circular economy for business:
what you pay to discard is inventory.

The material you pay to have removed comes back to your organisation as a product of your own, made through a national network of social-impact production partners, with a record for every batch. Four areas, four answers, and a table with 16 cases.

Who pays, how much, when, and what do you get? Four answers, by area.

Procurement, Finance, Sustainability and Brand arrive with different questions. Each row leads to the section that answers it.

ProcurementWho pays for what, what is the minimum and how long does it take?Model · Timeline ↓ FinanceIs this a new cost, or does it replace one I already carry?Model ↓ SustainabilityIs my material suitable, and what happens to the part that is not?Unsuitable share ↓ BrandIs this merchandise with a green story, or an asset I can defend?Ledger ↓

The full defence of the number, for Brand and for whoever signs the report, is on Circular Impact.

Circular economy for business: 16 cases, published figures.

The rows are grouped by material family so you find your own stream before a logo.

Materials that have already gone through the system — figures as published in each case
InOutCase
Uniforms
3,120 discarded fleece uniforms (7,956 m²)1,516 Christmas hats, 6,600 stars and 2,280 bootsEasy Cencosud
1,027+ delivery bags (dismantled, 87% recovery rate) + 397 m² of uniform textileTote bags, backpacks and pouchesGlovo
Upholstery
3,360+ m² of automotive upholstery waste (suede, textiles, leather and felt)Tote bags, backpacks, weekender bags, notebook sleeves, handbagsPeugeot
107.2 m² of automotive upholstery (Zárate Industrial Center)Complete grill sets: cutlery, a wooden cutting board and a tote bagMercedes-Benz
Airbags and seat belts
1,650 recovered airbags + upholstery + seat belts from the supply chain1,000 bespoke product sets (backpacks, totebags, notebook sleeves, pouches, phone bags, car bags, mate sets)Toyota
330 seat belts (1,320 metres) + 500+ discarded banners (925 m²) + 236 m² of textilesSling bags, car rubbish bags, pouches, totebagsVolkswagen
Banners and flags
202+ m² of deteriorated banners (ExpoAgro stand)Notebook sleevesBanco Galicia
137.72 m² of promotional event flagsMate setsGrupo Sancor Seguros
121.5 m² of roll-up banners + 18.6 m² of upholstery + 9.7 m² of flags and textiles + 4.2 m² of silo bags + 2.8 m of seat belts (handles)Tote bags, notebook sleeves, pouchesGoethe Schule
Silo bags
11,674+ m² of silo bagsBackpacks, lunchboxes, tote bags, eco bags, pouchesIpesasilo
525 m² of silo bags + 55 m² of banners + 45 m² of textiles (Duster launch)Travel bags, in-car storage, pouchesRenault
Damaged kits and backpacks
118 corporate-kit backpacks (72.8 m²) + 47 m² of banner (27 banners)PouchesKuehne+Nagel
126.9 m² of textiles from old welcome kitsMate sets, bags, backpacks, totes, travel kits and pouchesCofco International
Burlap bags
42.6 m² of polypropylene malt burlap, recovered and cleanedMate setsUnilever
Mixed
210 kg of industrial waste (upholstery offcuts, advertising tarps, banner mesh)Mate sets, desk organisers, car bins, tote bagsYusen Logistics

None of these figures is a tonne of CO₂. They are square metres, units and people: what is counted by hand. CO₂ is calculated per batch, in your report → Circular Impact.

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Is your material in the table? Send the four details →

Circular economy with no new spend: a purchase you already make.

The budget already exists, and it is bigger than the disposal line. It is what goes today into waste handling and disposal with little visible return; what marketing and HR already spend on merchandising and on welcome kits for teams and events; and what sustainability spends reporting and tracing back what actually happened to that waste. Three budgets that are already approved, paying for three things that do not talk to each other. The model moves them in four steps.

01

Assessment

Free, and with the material in front of us. We come to your warehouse or office to see the stream, or you send a sample to ours. Either way you get an assessment of what your material can become — before any agreement, and at no cost.

02

Zero disposal cost

Zero disposal cost for the material included in the agreement. "Zero" applies to disposal, not to the programme.

03

Purchase

What you paid to dispose, becomes purchases you already make — welcome kits, gifts, packaging, merchandise — made from your own material.

04

Continuity

Recurring programmes: multi-year, renewable, backed by data for every batch. The three formats — Limited Edition, Loyalty & Retail, Recurring Essentials — → see programmes.

What the assessment defines

Price ranges, minimums and lead times. They depend on the material, product complexity, manufacturing facility capacity and level of customisation, and are defined in the assessment.

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Who makes it: a network, not a factory.

Manufacturing facilities operating at a fraction of their capacity due to offshore competition: each programme restores economic value and skilled labour. They form a national network of social-impact production partners (+17 nodes), selected on five criteria:

Specialist capabilities Quality standards Production capacity Material expertise Proximity to the programme

Locally made, with no import dependency and domestic lead times. Workshop onboarding, training and audit records are available to enterprise clients under NDA.

No waste stream of your own? Also possible.

If your organisation does not generate a usable stream, the products come from third-party streams with the same record per batch.

Many waste generators have far more material than they could ever transform themselves, so we keep those streams in stock. That gives you a broader range of materials, textures and colours to choose from than your own operation would ever produce — with no logos and no branding from the company the material came from.

And it is traced the same way: where it came from, who handled it and how it was transformed, batch by batch, in REZET Hub. Buying from someone else's stream is not a lesser version of the programme — it is the same record, with a different origin.

Buying is not a condition, and neither is generating. Plenty of organisations start here, as buyers, and later put their own stream into the system once they see what it becomes.

From first email to first batch: five steps.

The commercial sequence: what happens between your first email and your first batch.

01

Assessment

You send four details and we come back with a proposal. The four details are at the end of the page.

02

Pilot

Where technically and commercially viable, a limited edition or initial production run validates the material, the product and the internal response before scaling.

03

Development

Material testing, concept design, prototyping, sampling and production validation before the final batch is approved.

04

Batch

A timeline for the whole project, defined before production begins.

05

Recurrence

When the stream is continuous, so is the programme: packaging, accessories and operational essentials, multi-year and renewable → Recurring Essentials.

Questions that come up before the first batch.

Is circular economy the same as recycling?
No. Recycling breaks the material down into raw material again. Here the material keeps its form — zero-waste cutting — and its story stays visible in the product. Reuse, recycling or a specialist recovery pathway is the route for the share that does not qualify, and it is documented as such.
Who pays for disposal of the material?
It is settled in the agreement. What remains to be defined is the programme price — what you buy, made from your own material — and that comes back with the assessment. → The Process
What do we send for the assessment?
Four. They are listed at the end of the page, together with what you get back.
Does it feed our sustainability report?
Yes. Every batch leaves with its chain of custody and a downloadable report, organised in REZET Hub. How it is measured, what is excluded and what we do not claim → Circular Impact. Which report line each field feeds → Scope 3, Category 5. What a chain of custody is → waste traceability as circular evidence.

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Material assessment

Send us four details. We come back with a proposal.

If your material is in the table above, we already know where to start. If it is not, the assessment will tell — before you commit to scale.

What you send
  • Material type
  • Approximate quantity
  • Location
  • Intended use
What you get
  • Feasibility
  • Products
  • Timings
  • Quantities
  • Reporting requirements
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