GOOD PRACTICE FROM SLOVENIA
Reuse Centre, Ltd., Social
Enterprise, a fusion of social
entrepreneurship and creativity
Reuse Centre, Ltd., Social Enterprise
is the first social enterprise in Slovenia,
established in 2012 primarily to address
environmental and social problems.
Reuse Centre developed a new model for
the implementation of socially responsible
entrepreneurship in Slovenia, which
connects municipalities and public
waste management companies, allowing
the development of new green jobs and
promoting resource savings in practice.
Today, it has nine business units across
the country.
The main activities of Reuse Centre are:
• Training and employing people from
vulnerable groups with the purpose of
returning them to the labor market and
ensuring social safety.
• Taking over still useful products
(usable items that are brought to the
Reuse Centre are reviewed, fixed,
cleaned, and offered for sale at a nominal
price. This includes furniture, sports
equipment, textiles, household appliances,
books and CDs, computer equipment,
toys, etc.);
• Processing, repairing, and innovatively
renovating particular types of still useful
products; upcycling;
• Removal service;
• Renovation and repair of equipment
by agreement;
• Environmental information and
consultation, with demonstration of
practical possibilities for conserving
natural resources.
Reuse Centre has an important
effect on the general public, in raising
environmental awareness, and spreading
awareness that our planet has limited
resources, which we must endeavor to
conserve, recycle, and reuse whenever
possible. The project also runs various
practical workshops whose main purpose
is to showcase the possible reuse of
second-hand equipment and the use of
waste materials to make new products.