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Daniel Kietzer is Director of Ecosystem Growth at Rheaply, a digital sharing platform scaling reuse by making resources discoverable, easily transferable and more valuable.
Rheaply was started in 2016, and has won lots of awards, including Most Innovative Reuse Company at the Reusies in 2021. It’s backed by a number of early-stage investors, including Microsoft and Salesforce.
Daniel Kietzer provides strategic, organizational, and technical support to Rheaply clients and their partners. He’s a circular economy and sustainability professional with 10+ years of experience designing and leading impact-focused projects with forward-thinking companies and organizations across the globe. Daniel’s speciality is reuse and recycling market development is his specialty, but he also dabbles in social entrepreneurship, sustainability in the built environment, water, carbon, and a variety of other sustainability-related efforts.
We’ll get an update on how Rheaply has evolved since my original conversation with Tom Fecarotta back in 2020, in particular how data aggregation unlocks opportunities for cost and carbon savings, as well as supporting your zero waste targets. So many organisations could be tapping into these solutions to help them do better, with less.
Podcast host Catherine Weetman helps businesses use circular, regenerative and fair solutions to do better, with less.
Stay in touch for free insights and updates…
Read on for a summary of the podcast and links to the people, organisations and other resources we mention.
Links we mention in the episode:
Links for our guest:
Books, people and organisations we mentioned
- Episode 31 with Tom Fecarotta of Rheaply https://www.rethinkglobal.info/episode-31-tom-fecarotta-of-rheaply/
- Recommended guest: Shannon Goodman, Exec Director of the Lifecycle Building Center https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-goodman-268aba3a
- Lifecycle Building Center https://www.lifecyclebuildingcenter.org/
- Catherine’s conversation with Janina Nieper of Furnify https://www.rethinkglobal.info/109-janina-nieper-connecting-new-designs-to-leftover-materials/
Guest bio
Daniel Kietzer is the Director of Ecosystem Growth at Rheaply, where he provides strategic, organizational, and technical support to scale and create new reuse market opportunities between Rheaply clients and partners in select priority regions. He’s a circular economy and sustainability professional with 10+ years of experience designing and leading impact-focused projects with forward-thinking companies and organizations across the globe. Reuse and recycling market development is his specialty, but he also dabbles in social entrepreneurship, sustainability in the built environment, water, carbon, and a variety of other sustainability-related efforts.
At Rheaply, we are working to scale reuse within the circular economy. We strive to help organizations reduce waste and save money. Rheaply’s reuse program brings together people and objects to make resources discoverable, easily transferable and more valuable in our global – and local – economy.
Rheaply’s ecosystem is comprised of organizations that have elected to connect and share resources in a neighborly fashion. This collaborative reuse network enables instant connections across organizations and neighborhoods, creating self-sufficient loops of assets, resources, goods, and materials. All facets of Rheaply’s ecosystem interact with one another through Rheaply’s platform to reuse and recirculate objects and resources at their highest and best use, ultimately driving value for the communities in which they operate.
Rheaply’s Circular Economy Ecosystem – How It Works
Our team works directly with Rheaply’s ecosystem and provides hands-on support to create and scale new local, high-impact reuse opportunities. These activities identify gaps, needs and opportunities to share and receive resources, provide processing or material handling services, and build community engagement around reuse and the circular economy. As a result, we help connect organizations with themselves, with likeminded partners and nonprofit organizations, and the communities they serve.
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Podcast music
Thanks to Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow, otherwise known as the brilliant, inventive and generous folk duo, O’Hooley & Tidow for allowing me to use the instrumentals from the live version of Summat’s Brewin’ as music for the podcast. You can find the whole track (inspired by the Copper Family song “Oh Good Ale”) on their album, also called Summat’s Brewin’. Or, follow them on Twitter.
