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Project overview
An educational intervention designed to expand young people’s career imagination by introducing waste management and circular economy sectors as credible, future-oriented professional pathways.
The project reframed waste not as an endpoint, but as a resource ecosystem revealing how emerging green industries offer stable employment, entrepreneurship potential and long-term relevance in a transforming global economy.
Through direct exposure to waste processing systems and real-world professionals, abstract sustainability concepts were translated into visible, accessible career opportunities.
Main objectives
The initiative challenged outdated career narratives by presenting recycling, resource recovery and circular design as legitimate, skilled and intellectually engaging career options, showing how the failures of the linear economy generate space for innovation, new professions and scalable business models, reframing environmental work not as idealism, but as pragmatic strategy for long-term financial stability.
Main reflection
The project revealed how traditional career guidance often recycles obsolete professional models, failing to acknowledge the structural shift toward regenerative economies.
Most powerfully, it demonstrated that for young people, sustainability becomes meaningful not when framed as moral obligation, but when understood as a rational pathway to security, relevance and opportunity.
In an unstable world, circular careers became visible not as “green ideals” but as smart, forward-looking choices for a resilient future.