Every year, the environment is burdened by a huge amount of not only ordinary municipal waste, but also unnecessary things. The current era is also characterized by a constant increase in the cost of living, which puts an ever-increasing number of inhabitants into existential difficulties. This situation creates conditions for changing the pattern of behavior - to stop throwing away unnecessary things and provide them to other citizens for subsequent use. Re-use centers and re-use points therefore increase the quality of the environment by preventing the generation of waste and further contribute to the resilience of society - i.e. they increase the quality of human life by satisfying needs with efficiently used things that would otherwise end up in a municipal waste dump or black landfills in nature.

Starting a new trend of efficient use of things in order to improve the environment and the resilience of society is the basic idea of the circular economy concept or sustainable development of society. Dealing with waste or preventing the generation of waste is not only a prerequisite for the sustainable functioning of every society, but also a prerequisite for the resistance of an individual or society to external influences (economic - e.g. the growth of waste disposal costs, and also social and humanitarian - e.g. the responsibility to pass the social establishment in a sustainable state to the next generation; not to hinder the life of people, or any plant or animal species, etc.) Every society should try to find innovative solutions to ensure its basic needs, to which waste production undoubtedly belongs.

The project responds to the social challenge of the circular economy, it wants to increase the knowledge potential of society, innovate defined procedures in the field of waste management so that they are beneficial for individuals and society, and increase the readiness of organizations responsible for waste to fulfill waste sorting obligations arising from legal regulations or social expectations.

The goal of the project is to create a methodology that will be usable mainly by the self-government of cities/municipalities, but also by non-profit organizations or business entities for the establishment and operation of re-use centers and re-use points. On the basis of the results of the analysis and evaluation of the legal regulations related to the issue (the Waste Act and other regulations in the field of waste management, the Business Companies and Cooperatives Act, the Accounting Act, tax laws, occupational safety regulations and others), based on the analyzes and evaluation of examples of good practice (already existing operations) and further, on the basis of the results of conducted research (behavior of citizens, amount of waste in connection with the economic cycle, etc.), a methodology will be created that will support the effective establishment and operation of re-use centers or points.

One of the outputs of the project are these websites, which are intended to be used to present professional articles, share links to interesting professional or scientific articles, to present examples of good practice from domestic and foreign business trips, including photo documentation, the team's research findings and much more. The members of the research team also hope that these websites will be used to collect the opinions, experiences and comments of citizens and organizations interested in the topic of re-use points and re-use centers.