Circular Revolution is the one and only environmental and community conscious brown waste solution for canal boaters in London.
In a nutshell, we collect boater poo and compost it!
We formally became a Community Interest (CIC) Company Co-Operative business in 2023, meaning we are owned and controlled by our members, to meet their shared needs.
We have been running since 2020 and we are super proud of our focus on environment, community and circularity.
Our Mission
‘Circular Revolution aims to provide a sustainable, equitable and accessible waste management service shaped by and for Boaters.’
Our Mission Statement can be broken down into our following Four Aims:
Aim 1: Improve Boater’s access to safe and sustainable sanitation:
Boaters are an under-served community who (like all people) deserve to have not just their basic needs met, but to have the resources and knowledge necessary to live safely, happily and ethically. In law, there is no designated authority to provide sanitation facilities for boaters, and the traditional facilities that are provided are becoming increasingly less available. We aim to contribute to an infrastructure which ensures boaters can safely and reliably manage their ‘waste’, as well as the freedom and information to decide by which means they will do this.
Aim 2: Ensure the service we provide is responsive to our community’s needs and available to all who want to use it:
The boating community is a diverse population who mainly live nomadically. Circular Revolution will ensure that our service is responsive to the social, economic, and cultural needs of boaters and specifically make sure that economic status is not a barrier to access. Our organisation and ways of working will respect and embrace people of all backgrounds, genders and abilities. A key organising principle of Circular Revolution in this regard is our adoption of the principles of a Co-Operative business.
Aim 3: Contribute to an improvement in the health of our immediate environment and of the wider eco-system:
The traditional sewered-sanitation facilities otherwise on offer to boaters contributes significantly to the pollution of our immediate and wider environment, including the waterways we call our home. Inspired by and utilising principles of ‘circularity’, we will ensure the ‘waste’ management solutions we provide are as environmentally- friendly as possible and creates energy and resources instead of wasting them.
Aim 4: Be the instrument for wider change:
The traditional sewage and sanitation system in the UK is a private, for-profit industry which prioritises share-holder profits and causes irreparable environmental damage through its mismanagement. We want to showcase a grass-roots, sustainable and circular waste management model which both works and is replicable in other community settings.
As of February 2025, we are run by a small Board of Directors and a Comittee Board.