What – EEESafe & LocalitEEE

WHAT is the EEECoin

A Local Community Currency, Designed for Real Impact

EEECoin is the non-crypto digital community currency built into EEESafe & LocalitEEE. It ensures that everyday actions such as registering appliances, choosing safe repair, reuse, or supporting local skills and services create value that stays within the community.

EEECoin:

Is generated through verified local activity, not speculation or energy hungry mining

Circulates only within the LocalitEEE ecosystem for your community, with potential exchange between participating communities in later phases

Rewards participation in the circular economy, including repair, reuse and future volunteering, but also in more Community Apps some preventing local Asset Stripping

Works alongside PLEEECash micro-grants, donated by EEESafe and awarded by the community

EEECoin operates as a rules-based, community-owned parallel economy, running alongside the cash economy and designed to retain economic, environmental and social value locally while supporting households, independent repairers and long-term community resilience.

What is Digital Inclusion

A working device is essential for education, healthcare, work and communication. When an area loses access to devices, families fall behind. When devices remain in the community and are supported by local technicians, Digital Inclusion becomes fairer, safer and more sustainable.

Why it matters

A working device is essential for education, healthcare and everyday life. When digital access stays local, the benefits stay local too. It helps families stay connected, confident and included in modern society.

How it Happens

IT devices are Registered by their owners and linked to local UEEESafe Technicians through the Digital Twin. This gives repairers priority to keep items in the community. When someone donates a Registered device, the technician checks compliance and if Recalled, evidences correct charger/batteries etc, its recorded in the Register and passes it to the local Stakeholder who decides who should receive it.

Benefits to the Community

Local Digital Inclusion supports local repairers, grows digital skills and ensures safe devices reach people who need them. It stops valuable items being taken out of the LocalitEEE, reduces and evidences Scope 3 prevention and keeps
opportunity within the community.

WHAT are we Fixing

A System that Leaks Safety, Value and Opportunity

Today, millions of appliances and digital devices are replaced or passed on with no shared safety standard, no repair history and no local benefit.

We are fixing:

Unsafe products slipping through the net – recalls missed, second-hand sales with no checks, and no way to know who owns what.

Community asset stripping – valuable goods taken away through trade-ins, take-back schemes and centralised donation banks, with little or no local economic return.

Lack of trusted repair standards – independent repairers struggle to show they are safe, compliant and worth choosing.

Lost materials and skills – reusable parts, precious metals and repair expertise wasted instead of being captured for local benefit.

EEESafe & LocalitEEE provide a practical alternative: a safety-led register with digital twins, certified repairers and a community marketplace that keeps money, materials and opportunity close to home.

WHAT is Coming Next

Building a National Network, Starting with Pilot Communities

The platform you see now is the foundation. Next, we are rolling out a series of phased developments that deepen local impact and make it easier to take part.

Planned developments include:

Pilot Communities

Live testing in selected areas, proving how the model works for citizens, repairers, councils and local businesses.

Membership App & Digital Wallet

A single place for households to see their registered items, local metrics and the value of their contributions.

PLEEECash Micro-Grants & EEECoin Integration

Transparent, rules-based micro-grants for people in need, funded from stakeholder and marketplace fees.

Volunteer & Skills Modules

Tools to recognise volunteering, route donated items to trusted local repairers and support pathways into training.

Additional Community Apps

Further LocalitEEE apps that support local business offers, events, education and circular-economy projects.

As each phase goes live, we will share progress on the blog and invite more communities to participate.

WHAT is a Community

A LocalitEEE Community of Households, Repairers and Stakeholders

A “Community” in our model is not just a map – it is a place-based network of households, repairers and local stakeholders linked through the Appliance Safety Register and LocalitEEE platform.

This structure means every registered repair, reuse or donation helps your community directly – rather than disappearing into a national pot.

Each Community:

Is built around a defined local area of households (for example, an electoral-scale area).
Comes to life when the first household registers an appliance or digital device.
Has its own LocalitEEE Business Directory, Marketplace listings and repair network.
Accumulates its own metrics and micro-grant pot, based on local activity and stakeholder fees.

Households

Repairers

Businesses

Community Pot

WHAT is a Digital Twin

A Live Record of Each Registered Product

A Digital Twin is a secure, evolving digital record of an appliance or digital device registered on our Appliance Safety Register.

Essential details

Make, model, serial number, age and ownership.

Repair & testing history

who repaired it, what was done and when, plus key safety readings provided by certified repairers.

Safety information

recall status, known risks and checks that have been carried out.

Reuse journey

if the product is sold or donated via the LocalitEEE Marketplace, the next owner can see its safety and repair history before they buy.

These Digital Twins allow us to block unsafe items from being listed, notify owners if problems arise and generate trusted local metrics on waste prevention, carbon savings and materials retained in the community.

WHAT is the Biz Directory

The LocalitEEE Business Directory

The LocalitEEE Business Directory is where households can find trusted local stakeholders connected to the Appliance Safety Register.

Showcase EEESafe and UEEESafe certified repairers, including their metrics and (optional) insurance details.

List other aligned businesses and organisations – retailers, landlords, housing providers, reuse partners and community groups.

Display how each business contributes to local safety, reuse and community wealth creation.

Provide a clear route from a registered product to a local service – for example, booking a repair directly from your account.

Directory entries are local by design. Businesses appear only in the communities where they operate, helping to build place-based economies rather than national marketplaces that extract value away.

WHAT is UEEESafe

The Safety Standard for Digital Device Repairs

UEEESafe extends our safety-first approach into the world of IT and digital devices – laptops, tablets, mobile phones, desktop PCs, monitors and more.

Are independently assessed against our protocols, including WEEE compliance and recognised data-wiping standards (such as NIST 800-88).

Operate within defined local areas so that repair, reuse and donation activity benefits the communities where people live and work.

Can register customer devices into the Appliance Safety Register, linking each item to its owner and repair history.

Have first sight of devices that are being repaired, sold or donated through the LocalitEEE Marketplace, helping keep value and skills local.

For citizens and donors, UEEESafe provides a trusted route to digital inclusion – knowing that devices have been safely repaired, data-wiped and kept within the local economy wherever possible.

WHAT is Sustainability

Turning Everyday Decisions into Measurable Impact

For us, sustainability is not a slogan; it is built into how the system works.

Through EEESafe & LocalitEEE, each community can see how:

Waste and carbon are reduced when products are safely repaired or reused instead of replaced.

Materials such as steel, copper, aluminium and plastics are retained in the local economy rather than lost in national waste streams.

Local jobs and skills are created when independent repairers are chosen and supported.

Micro-grants (PLEEECash) flow back to households in need whenever stakeholders and Marketplace users participate.

These outcomes align with multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals and UK policy on circular economy, resource efficiency and levelling up – but the real value is simple: safer homes, stronger communities and a fairer share of the benefits where people actually live.

WHAT is a Circular Economy

Keeping Products, Materials and Value in Use

A Circular Economy keeps products, materials and value in use for as long as possible, rather than following the traditional “use and throw away” approach.

Instead of replacing products when they fail, it focuses on repair, reuse and responsible recovery of materials, reducing waste and keeping resources and assets within the local economy.

Waste and carbon are reduced when products are safely repaired or reused instead of replaced. Social value and Material Metrics are displayed locally.

Safety is increased as we see some Recalls stopped from being sold, and a history of Repair contained with each Registered Appliance in your LocalitEEE Marketplace.

Local jobs and skills are created when Certified repairers are chosen and supported. Appliances can be linked to Repairers, and booked with our App.

Registered appliances can be repaired by Certified Repairers, reused, donated or sold locally, to help tackle poverty.

These outcomes support UN Sustainable Development Goals and UK circular economy policy, delivering safer homes and stronger communities.