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Human knowledgeis a resource.

Knowledge, skills and experience should stay useful when careers change, organizations evolve or resources go unused.

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Knowledge moving between people in six steps: Learn, Use, Share, Transfer, Reinvent and Reuse.
The opportunity

Circularity is bigger than materials.

How it is usually discussed

Circularity usually covers materials, energy and waste: keeping things in use instead of throwing them away.

What gets left out

Human knowledge, skills, experience and community assets can also be lost or left unused.

What we can do

Reconnect those resources with people and organizations before their value disappears.

Circularity in practice

Circularity into Impactful Action

Turning e-waste and IT waste into community opportunity.

Konnect America partners with businesses, recyclers, technology providers and community organizations to give discarded technology and usable resources a next purpose.

Instead of allowing their remaining value to be lost—or adding unnecessarily to environmental waste—we help redirect that value toward education, scholarships, workforce training and community programs.

It’s circularity with a human and environmental outcome: reducing waste, extending the useful life and value of resources, and turning what might have been discarded into new opportunities for communities.

Waste → Value → Opportunity → Impact: discarded electronics are refurbished, creating value that funds education and opportunity, with a positive impact on the planet.
Two ways to think about circularity

One line ends. The other keeps going.

Select each step of Human Circularity to see what it means in practice.

Traditional circularity

Keeps materials and products in use.

TakeUseRecoverReuse

Focused on physical things.

Human circularity

Keeps knowledge moving between people, generations and organizations.

What if America treated human knowledge and potential as resources worth recovering, reusing and reinvesting?

Recover

Capture knowledge, experience and overlooked community assets.

Reconnect

Use AI to match resources with people and organizations that can use them.

Reinvest

Turn recovered value into training, mentoring, innovation and resilience.

A circle of photos showing people learning, mentoring and working together across the community.
From theory to action

What changes when nothing is wasted.

Select a card to see the before and after.