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News and field notes
Activity updates, lessons from the field, and progress on building the Sirkula platform.
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Why waste banks stop, and what we changed
Units rarely stop because residents lose interest. What happens more often: collection is unreliable, payment is delayed, and record-keeping becomes too burdensome for the caretakers. We treat those three things as the primary risk, not a program detail.
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Sirkula is designed for bad signal
Field record-keeping has to keep working when the network drops. That's why the operator app is built offline-first, syncing data once a connection is available.
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What the administrative sanction on Putri Cempo landfill means for Solo residents
The obligation to draft an open-dumping phase-out action plan opens up policy space for upstream solutions. Sorting at home is no longer just an environmental appeal — it's part of the city's way out.
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Women as the deciding factor in sorting success
In most neighborhoods, the decision to sort waste is made in the kitchen. That's why our participation targets and training are tracked by gender, and women are recruited into paid operational roles, not just volunteer ones.