Pioneering Sustainability and
Waste Supply Chain Management Through Digital Transformation for ReCircle
In a world grappling with the escalating challenge of waste, ReCircle stands at the forefront of the sustainability movement. With a bold vision to revolutionize recycling, ReCircle connects communities through innovative solutions that simplify waste management, empowering individuals and businesses to embrace responsible consumption and sustainable practices. Every item recycled through ReCircle contributes to a larger, transformative mission: changing how the world perceives waste.
Business: The Background
India, one of the world’s largest producers of plastic waste, generates approximately 1 lakh metric tonnes of solid waste daily, amounting to a staggering 62 million metric tonnes annually. Recognizing this growing crisis, ReCircle decided to take charge of the recycle sector by making it simplified and efficient.
ReCircle’s founders envisioned a way to revolutionize the recycling sector by constructing a traceable, transparent supply chain. Their mission? To build an efficient waste management infrastructure that supports brands in meeting Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) compliance while advancing their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Challenge
ReCircle’s operations relied on resource-intensive manual operations with paper-based documents, lacking traceability for waste collected and recycled across the entire supply chain.
Therefore, the company’s vision was to develop a robust, fully digitized platform to streamline the end-to-end waste management process and enhance traceability. Their needs included:
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Holistic Traceability of the Supply Chain
Full visibility from waste collection to certification.
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Complete Transparency
A legitimate system providing real-time insights of all the involved stakeholders in collecting, supplying and recycling waste.
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Seamless Integration
Unifying diverse entities like brands, waste collectors, logistics, recycling centers, and certification bodies with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology for document and vehicle number scanning.
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Efficient Digitalization
Replacing the whole manual processes with seamless automated workflows.
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Increased Data Flow
Efficiently traversing and utilizing data across the ecosystem.
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Boosted Scalability
A digital solution that could grow with their business operations without any downtimes.
Each stakeholder—brands, collection partners, waste processors, and administrators—play a unique role. Hence, the platform has to accommodate these roles while ensuring usability and compliance with secure storage and verification of sensitive personal data in the cloud as part of the KYC purpose.
Also, Zaigo Infotech has to deliver a user-friendly mobile app for collection partners to operate in the field capturing the plastic waste journey.
The Solution
ReCircle partnered with Zaigo Infotech to develop a comprehensive digital solution tailored to their waste recycling and supply chain needs. The result was a fully integrated web and mobile platform designed to streamline and digitize the entire waste management ecosystem. Our application transformed their recycling process into a seamless, automated workflow.
Key Solutions Implemented:
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Seamless, frictionless and fully automated onboarding of different entities.
Brands, collection partners and recyclers are enabled for easy self registration and user assistance.
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Very simple form fill to place order digitally from the platform by Brands for requesting plastic credit certificates.
Admins can sort and auto-assign orders to various collection partners based on location/region for the order fulfilment, material type and quantity through the backend system.
Manage the complete order progress, stage of the order and the visibility on total plastic recycled against an order and the quantity yet to be fulfilled. Certificate issuance against the order quantity fulfilled, all from a single dashboard.
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Sensitive data, such as personal and vehicle identification information, was verified using third-party APIs, ensuring that all data stored within the platform remained secure, encrypted, and compliant with regulations.
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Provided complete visibility into every stage of the recycling process.
Enabled tracking of waste from collection to recycling and certification.
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The solution optimized the supply chain by enabling stakeholders to manage vehicles and waste collection efficiently.
Collection partners, using either the web or mobile app, can initiate the loading, dispatching, and unloading of waste at plastic waste recycling facilities for generating recycled certificates.
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Unified all entities, including brands, collection partners, logistics, and recycling facilities, into a cohesive platform.
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Delivered a user-friendly mobile app for collection partners, facilitating waste tracking and management on the go. The app also provides push notifications for instant updates on orders assigned, status updates on the logistics process
Designed a web app for centralized order and data management.
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Streamlined workflows to enhance operational efficiency, and reduce time and efforts.
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Automated order management, and certification issuance.
The platform's architecture follows a dynamic role-based access control model, which allows flexibility with limited access based on user roles, security and authenticity for every entity.
Only stakeholders with relevant permissions can access specific features and functions tied to their roles, preventing unauthorized access to restricted functionalities.
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Enabled real-time tracking of waste collection and logistics across diverse geographies in India.
Admins can monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track progress and make data-driven decisions for better management and performance.
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The platform is bilingual, supporting both English and Hindi, enhancing accessibility and improving the overall user experience.
Onboarding Automation
Order Request, Processing, & Management
Secure Data Verification
End-to-End Traceability
Vehicle and Waste Management
System Integration
Mobile and Web Applications
Automation Across the Ecosystem
Role-Based Access Control
Custom Map Interface
Data-Driven Insights
The application delivers in-depth insights for collection partners, brands, and plastic waste processors.
Content Localization
Technology Stack
Key Features & and Benefits
For Brands:
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Self-service onboarding, and order placement and tracking.
Real-time tracking of plastic waste recycling.
Audit trails for compliance and certification.
Role-based access control
Multi factor authentication for enhanced security
For ReCircle Admins:
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Centralized dashboard to manage all stakeholders, processes, and entities (partners, brands, recyclers).
Real-time insights into the recycling supply chain.
Detailed analytics and transaction history for complete oversight.
Role-based access controls with activity logs.
Automated assignment and management of purchase orders for collection partners and recyclers.
Order management to track progress at every stage.
Ledger management of plastic credits received and issued to brands.
Document and notification management with customizable templates.
Automated certificate issuance and management with a full audit trail (from waste collection to recycling).
For Collection Partners:
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Mobile app access for field staff with push notifications for updates like loading, transit and delivery.
Order and status management
Role-based access and progress tracking for loads
Third-party integrations for business validations, vehicle validation, and user authentication.
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Role-specific access to facility management features.
Tools for compliance tracking and certification creation.
For Plastic Waste Processors:
Technology Stack
Conclusion
Through its collaboration with Zaigo Infotech, ReCircle transformed its waste-supply chain operations into a fully digital, scalable ecosystem. The solution revolutionized the waste management process by offering traceability, transparency, and efficiency. By leveraging advanced technology, ReCircle, India’s leading recycling business, now empowers brands, waste collectors, and processors to contribute to a circular economy, addressing critical environmental challenges while meeting regulatory and sustainability goals.
Zaigo Infotech’s precise solution has enabled ReCircle to lead the charge in sustainable waste management, setting a benchmark for innovation and environmental responsibility.
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