This website is for buying and selling second-hand designer clothing, accessories, and jewellery from individual consumers. It is driven from 5 different offices around the world: Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Berlin. Vestiaire collective “is dedicated to transforming the fashion industry for a more sustainable future” .
The beneficiaries in with this project can be animals and
environment as well. In very high-end products, the used material
can be from some animal that is quite rare or has bad living
conditions. With reuse, some person can buy for instance a purse
made from some animal without killing a new one to make another
purse.
Also, the environment itself can benefit from this kind of activity
because this way we do not need to stress or pollute the environment
once again because the accessories in question have already been
manufactured.
Ordinary people (or fashion activists, as Vestiaire collective calls its users) are using this project. Private consumers can either sell or buy products via this platform.
They give the opportunity for used clothes to have a second home and a second life. Fashion industry is one of the most polluting industries so having alternatives in order to reduce pollution is very well needed.
There are many people who want to have designer clothes but do not want to spend hundreds or thousands for on one piece of cloth. Vestiaire collective is amongst other things mentioned before, usually have the designer products in a discount because they are used and people are willing to pay for the products.
They are using more environmentally friendly packaging and they try to reduce the distance between buyer and the items he/she is wanting
https://www.vestiairecollective.com/
https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/blog/top-7-most-polluting-industries
Partners that are involved in Food cloud’s projects: Lidl, AIB, Aldi, Musgrave, Coca Cola, McDonald’s, and Waitrose, for instance. In the receiving end being part of this project are the charities.
This way the charities have free food to provide and support many individuals withing the community they are operating. That can include children, youth, the elderly, and other people who are underprivileged in some way or other. With the help of Food Cloud the charities can make savings on their food costs.
Worldwide brands are using this project to reduce food waste and giving help for people who are struggling to have something to eat.
There is always need for charity. And Food Cloud is answering to that. Also, this way big companies can reduce the waist they otherwise would produce.
By giving companies an opportunity to give donations in a form of surplus food. This way they are handling two birds with one stone.
Stores upload description of the food they cannot sell to the smartphone app, then local charity receives a notification, they collect the food and then give it to people who are in need.
It is an individual operator who is operating with the help of its partners who want to be part of the project.
RecycleNation is helping businesses, consumers, local, state, and federal government entities, as well as non-profit organizations who want to use project’s API to know how to recycle their different kinds of materials. Because they can recycle almost everything is hard to distinguish only few animal species who are benefitting this project the most. It can be said that flora and fauna in general are gaining benefit.
Users are the same as beneficiaries apart from the environment.
Sometimes operators are unaware of how to recycle some specific material or can it be recycled with some other material. The project is answering to these kinds of questions to help in recycling.
The project is reporting and tracking different capabilities on recycling locations, visitors, and materials. Also, they are helping with the legislation and regulations, giving guidance, and gathering data.
Their own API is offering endless customization options to add a tailored recycling search to partner websites. They have an interactive widget, as well.
MY ECO is working for not only different companies, public operators, such as schools and municipalities, and non-profit organisations but also private and public individual groups who want to take part to the project.
MY ECO is trying to create collaborative relationship between consumers, businesses, and retailers to benefit the environment.
User can be individual consumers who have downloaded their mobile app and try to improve their recycling habits with the help of the app. Other users can be for example: Retail stores, municipalities, corporates, and schools.
People tend to forget their recycling habits, so there is a need to remind them about environmental healthy habits.
They have a mobile app that is reminding people to take their re-usable bags with them to retailers. It also measures the progress person has made and rewards him or her for continued use.
The mobile app in technological field and psychological ways to measure and influence customer behaviour.
In addition to the persons who carry the project, other actors can contribute to it. The project is using Google Maps to indicate where users can find different types of recycling locations. On top of that, other actors are the locations that are collaborating with RecycleNation by giving them a permission to share their location in RecycleNation’s website
How can we increase awareness among public operators on how and where to recycle different materials and this way enhance their individual sustainability?
Businesses, consumers, local, state, and federal government entities.
The company has a large database where they can see different locations of different recycling bins. Also, they can give their own API to their partners so they can share information for user in their websites or apps.
The API is used for getting the information from RecylceNation’s database about the locations of different kinds of recycling areas. The API can be heavily modified for the needs of the partner. The API is used to display concrete areas where they can find recycling areas.
With the help of API, RecycleNation’s enormous database can be distributed to other platforms and this way it will get larger footprint.