SVDM s.r.o.

Community education and environment reuse center “Baterkáreň” est. 2019, is a registered social enterprise that focuses on re-use i.e. on applying circular economy principles into everyday life by providing simple solutions to handle (and prevent) waste.

As the first reuse center in Slovakia, they provide their community with knowledge, a wide variety of projects, tools and resources in order to keep as many unused items in circulation as possible. They recognize that in order to make changes, the mindsets (and behavior) of people need to be changed first. They want sustainability to be accessible to the general public, so that the community can adapt as effectively as possible to the potential impacts of climate change in the area. Team of Baterkaren educates, creates educational modules, publish ebooks, create projects for communities to be able to “live the change” – swap events (more than 100), upcycling and other workshops (more than 100), library of things, shared workshop, online and offline reuse centers, material collections for those in need. We also rolled out beta version of web application named SWAPKA (counting saved CO2e of items returned to usage). Baterkaren returned to usage more than 50000 items, tons of clothes and saved tons of CO2e.