KLIMIS OLIVE BBQ BRIQUETTES 2023.pdf

Business case

Impact on the health and happiness of human populations

Well-being

Direct and indirect reduction in economic costs

Cost Savings

Direct and indirect effects that increase revenues or the potential for new revenues, for example from new products, customer segments, partnerships or business models

Revenue Potential

Efficiency gains on operations or transactions either through cultural or technological shifts

Productivity

Impact on the ease of innovation, and facilitating uptake of innovations

Innovation

Scalability

Reduced use of virgin materials and/or an increase of the use of secondary and bio-based materials

Reduce Material Consumption (SDG12)

Reduced use of fossil fuel energy sources and/or increased use of renewable energy

Reduce Energy Consumption

Contributing to the improvement of biodiversity including species diversity, total number of protected species, and ecosystem health

Biodiversity

Providing goods on the Internet, through mail order, or television, or providing goods in stores, including apparel, electronics, furniture, food and drug, etc.

Retail

Producing and refining oil, gas, and other consumable fuels related to the generation of energy

Consumable Fuels

Producing and gathering crop and animal products from land and water through farming, hunting, and fishing

Agriculture

Processing and producing food and beverages for consumption

Food and Beverage

Transforming waste products, materials for reuse within the same industry

Closed loop upcycling

Generating energy from waste through processes such as anaerobic digestion, gasification, incineration, etc.

Generating energy from waste

Circular Economy in school programmes

Encourage workplace training

Matchmaking platforms

Environmental assessment & permits

Circular use of public-owned assets (land, buildings and equipment)

Grow countries globally account for 55% of all raw material extraction and 52% of the material footprint, while housing around 37% of the global population.

These are larger Southeast Asian countries and countries in Latin America and Northern Africa, as well as those with an economy in transition in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

Examples include :
- China
- Indonesia
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Vietnam
- Myanmar
- Egypt, ...

Large contribution to the overshoot of planetary boundaries—largely due to the consumptions of local materials in higher-
income (Shift) countries: these countries contribute 50% of climate change, 62% of nitrogen, 60% of phosphorus, 53% of freshwater use and 42% of land use change.

To find out what country profile your country belongs to, explore [this interactive story](https://circularity-gap.world) and search for your country on the final map.

Grow

Business

Impacts

small_climate-4803653_640.jpg

thumbnail_climate-4803653_640.jpg

climate-4803653_640.jpg

Industries

small_coast-wind-turbine-sea-sky.jpg

thumbnail_coast-wind-turbine-sea-sky.jpg

coast-wind-turbine-sea-sky.jpg

A framework of policy instruments that enabled and encourage the transition to the circular economy

Policies

medium_image-20160922-22514-1aqaw5j.jpg

small_image-20160922-22514-1aqaw5j.jpg

thumbnail_image-20160922-22514-1aqaw5j.jpg

image-20160922-22514-1aqaw5j.jpg

A framework of policy instruments that enable and stimulate the transition to the circular economy

The principles of a circular economy concern designing out waste, regenerating ecosystems and keeping items in use. Decoupling the economy from material flows—improving the rate of resource productivity faster than the economic growth rate—is also a consistent guide. By evolving with the growing number of applications of circular economy principles, and consolidating these strategies across thematic areas, Circle Economy’s Key Elements Framework (KE) renders the elements of the circular economy salient and serves as a basis to derive contextual strategies and interventions. 


The Framework consists of:
- Core Elements: Activities directly handling product or material flows; and uniquely,
- Enabling Elements: those that remove obstacles for core actors.


Key elements of the circular economy

large_photo-1515534238346-fb9ae3e399d0.jpg

medium_photo-1515534238346-fb9ae3e399d0.jpg

small_photo-1515534238346-fb9ae3e399d0.jpg

thumbnail_photo-1515534238346-fb9ae3e399d0.jpg

photo-1515534238346-fb9ae3e399d0.jpg

Circle Economy's framework of strategies and activities that define the circular economy

Whilst no two countries are the same, there are still obvious similarities between some of them, with discernible development patterns and parallels in evidence. Common problems and shared solutions help place unique country identities and individual issues in context.

Whilst this classification is far from clear-cut and exhibits some overlap, it does underline how the discourse on transitioning to a circular economy needs to account for both differences and commonalities, if we are to arrive at a more strategic and instructive analysis. It also allows to highlight a set of key themes that are likely to be central to the countries that fall under the respective profiles. 

Country profiles (Build, Grow, Shift)

thumbnail_bgsimage 14.png

bgsimage 14.png

A framework to distinguish between different country profiles and their circular transition needs.

Browse case studies by type of implementing stakeholder.

Implementing stakeholders

 As demand for energy increases across the world, climate change simultaneously has begun to visibly impact all countries. To mitigate climate change, it is necessary to ensure that economic development will prioritise carbon-neutral bioenergy fuels, especially those that harness energy from agricultural residues.  The family-owned business ‘Klimis’ produces lime putty and quicklime. In the process they use olive stones as a source of heat energy. The olive stones are a waste product from the olive oil production in the region. As the olive pips do not completely combust in this process, a black powder is created as a bioproduct. Reusing this residue offers an opportunity to create an additional source of income and protect the environment from the discarded residue. The business owners experimented for 15 years before developing and finally placing their own olive barbecue briquettes in the Greek market in 1992. They designed and assembled their own machinery from scratch which included mixers, press machines and dryers and then tested if they could produce this new by-product effectively.   
The family business created a new technique to generate a ‘green’ product from waste. This protects the environment by reducing waste disposal and is financially beneficial. Thanks to this new environmentally-friendly product the business increased its income by 50%. The upcycling of combustion products ensures the efficient use of natural resources without interfering with the life-cycle of olive trees. This type of barbecue briquette is very advantageous as they emit 30% less carbon monoxide than wood charcoal.  
 

Kalamata

medium_blob

small_blob

thumbnail_blob

blob

KLIMIS company is a micro family owned business established in Kalamata in 1968. We produce lime products which are separated in two categories. Quicklime which is used in a form of powder to agriculture sector as a fertilizer and Putty lime which used as a building material in construction sector. From 1992, we produce and distributing in the market an innovative product for barbecue, the KLIMIS olive barbecue briquettes made from Greek Kalamata’s olive stones. 

KLIMIS (VAS. & EK. KOTTARIDI GP)

<p>Our small family-owned business, for more than 50 years, uses locally available crushed olive stones (called exhausted olive pomace) as a carbon-neutral fuel, that are fired with crushed limestone to produce quicklime (calcium oxide), an important chemical with many agricultural, construction and environmental applications. The partially-combusted olive stones remaining in the kiln, are then collected and compacted in moulds to create a slow-burning barbecue briquettes. Also, leftover ash from the burning of these briquettes can also been used as a fertilizer or soil enhancer.</p>