Discussion about entry: Elise

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Mon, 06/07/2010 - 18:22

Dear Bruno,

Congratulations on your entry. I am curious about the spectrum of the role your firm takes. Are you merely a transportation provider or do you help facilitate a relationship between businesses and recycling plants? Do you offer 'education' to the businesses to help them make recycling a core process?

Good luck with your entry!

-Matthew

Tue, 06/08/2010 - 04:01

Yes, ELISE is merely transporter and transformer (sort) of paper (the aim is to create new jobs for desabled and/or non qualified people.
But for that, ELISE has first to promote recycling in companies to open the market (10 to 20% only are recycling their papers today in France).
When a company adopts ELISE, ELISE leads education of their colaborators so that recycling produces maximum of paper.
With the monitoring of collected weights, it's also possible to give feed-back and to reinforce implication.

Mon, 07/05/2010 - 11:24

Dear Bruno Meura,

According to your experience what are the main barriers or challenges so that social business model can thrive?

Cheers,

The Changemakers's Team

Thu, 07/08/2010 - 06:48

Dear Violeta,

The main barrier is money.
To succeed in such business, it's necessary to be competitive in front of waste costs.
Economic model is based on :
- income from companies which give their paper to ELISE( less expensive than waste operator)
- income from sale of paper
- subventions or public helps (which are scarcer and scarcer, and difficult to get).

Best regards