For councils
A local waste prevention and reuse scheme, running in Soignies and around.
The problem
A share of what reaches the container park is still usable: bricks from a finished job, branches, grass clippings, furniture, crates, toys. These materials enter a treatment channel for lack of a place to meet at village scale.
Every tonne costs the council in transport, in treatment and in levy.
The solution
A local exchange for materials still in use, in six streams. A resident posts what they no longer need, another reserves it and collects it. No payment, no logistics, no labour on the council’s side.
Circular economy at the scale where it actually works: between neighbours, on foot or with a trailer, with no intermediate transport.
What is measured
Twelve indicators, computed continuously, with no manual entry: residents signed up and active, listings posted, reserved and collected, conversion rate, median time to reservation, distances, volumes by stream, CO₂ avoided.
The central figure is kilos returned to circulation per 1,000 inhabitants per month. A communal report is generated automatically on the first of each month, in HTML and CSV, ready for environmental reporting.
Opening it in your municipality
The service currently covers 12 km around Soignies. Deploying another municipality takes a day, with its own instance, its own database and its own figures: a council can leave with its data.
Nothing to run on the council side. No logistics, no labour, no moderation queue: the service runs on its own and files its report every month.
Terms are set case by case, with the perimeter and the duration. Contact: Guillaume Chasse, guillaume@caoua.be.