CAN IT! turns Poland's kaucja deposit-return system into dignified paid work for people experiencing homelessness. It needs enabling, not funding. Here is the case, the city data and the model.
Rough sleeping strains outreach, hospitals and city budgets, and the routes back into paid work are narrow and slow. Meanwhile the new deposit system needs high return rates to hit its targets. Two problems, one loop.
The model gives people a genuine, paid, flexible first step back, while lifting the return rates your kaucja targets depend on. It asks for enabling, not a grant.
A dignified, paid first rung into work, with wrap-around support from NGO partners, not a hostel queue or a hand-out.
More cans and bottles reclaimed toward EU and national deposit targets, collected by a team the city already roots for.
The 0,50 zł deposit funds the running loop. Grants and our expert panel fund only the one-off build, so the ask of you is policy, not money.
We ask three things: recognise the 100% take-home treatment of the wage that keeps it beyond ZUS by design, allow smart-point siting on public land and at transport hubs, and back a single pilot city so the model can prove itself before it scales. The Kraków pilot is ready first.
Bring CAN IT! to your city. Turn a deposit into a wage, and a wage into a way home.
We are pouring the final details. Soon we will introduce the team behind CAN IT!, the volunteer panel donating the expertise that builds the loop, from education and medicine to psychology, planning, campaigns and human resources.
Coming soon