THE CIRCULENTS
Anna Bergström & Ingela Ljung
Sustainable experts
Sweden
Ingela and Anna runs a centre for sustainable development in Nyköping, Sweden; The Circulents. Circulent is a word composed of circular and consumer. It describes a person who choose sustainable products and business models, who rents, borrows, swops and shop almost everything second hand. The Circulents are convinced the future way is to create availability to products and items you need instead of owning them.
In the heart of Nyköping’s oldest history, integrated in the old castle, the Circulents are running their sustainable business – reusing the old house with few facilities, as a centre for developing circular and sustainable business models. They offer rooms to rent for sustainable conferences, meetings, and workshops in tastefully upcycled and sustainable furnishings. An environment for creativity and innovation!
In parallel, they also run a work-integrated social enterprise for people who are far from the regular labour market. The people who work in place are given knowledge and development in the handling of clothes, textiles, and small furniture that was intended to be thrown away as waste. They learn how to sort material and reuse it by upcycle design and creates new things from old ones.
