Our activities
Your challenges. Practical solutions.
Circular economy, energy, agriculture, biodiversity and territories: explore our five areas of expertise.
Five expertises, one reading of systems
Each comes with full support, from analysis through to rollout.
Circular economy
The circular economy moves away from an 'extract, produce, consume, discard' model in favour of reduction, reuse, repair, sharing and recycling. In Mauritius, where space is limited and many resources are imported, this shift is an environmental challenge — but also an economic and strategic one.
Keep materials in a loop: reduce, repair, reuse, then recycle. Extended producer responsibility, eco-organisations, industrial symbiosis, eco-design and the bioeconomy.
- Waste and resource flow audits
- Waste management plans
- Regulatory preparation and support
- Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
- Rollout and management of eco-organisations
- Eco-design
- Industrial symbiosis
- Identifying collection and recovery value chains
- Team training and engagement
- Bioeconomy
Energy
The energy transition starts with a better understanding of uses and available resources. Mautopia mobilises the right skills to help organisations and territories cut consumption and develop more sustainable energy solutions.
From an energy efficiency plan to demand management: solar power, bioclimatic building, active mobility and water resource preservation.
- Energy efficiency plans
- Energy demand management
- Solar plant sizing
- Support for solar deployment
- Sustainable and bioclimatic construction
- Active and electric mobility
- Preserving and optimising water resources
Sustainable agriculture
Developing a more resilient agriculture means working on production methods, knowledge transfer and value chain structuring alike.
Production systems that protect soils and water while staying economically workable. Agroecological gardens, training, seed-to-plate value chains and community-supported agriculture.
- Agroecological gardens and vegetable plots
- Programmes for businesses and associations
- Training in agroecology
- Structuring local value chains
- Projects from seed to plate
- Support for community-supported agriculture
Living systems
The resilience of our islands depends directly on the health of their terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Mautopia supports initiatives to better understand, protect and restore living systems.
Understand what lives on a territory before deciding what gets built there. Biodiversity atlas, protection of fauna and flora, reefs, lagoons and ocean.
- Biodiversity atlas
- Protection of fauna and flora
- Species reintroduction
- Invasive species control
- Understanding reefs and lagoons
- Discovering and protecting the ocean
Territory
Ecological transition also depends on how we organise the spaces where we live and work.
Decisions last when they are taken at the right scale. Planning advice, coastal preservation tools, school greening and sustainable city development.
- Planning and land use
- Coastal preservation
- Greening facilities and shared spaces
- Developing more sustainable cities
Focus
Circular economy: from diagnosis to concrete solutions
Waste management
Pre-audit
Understanding the nature and volume of your flows to identify waste that can be avoided or recovered.
Management plan
Defining objectives, responsibilities, equipment, value chains and concrete actions.
Implementation
Identifying suitable collection and recovery providers and supporting their deployment.
Extended Producer Responsibility
Mautopia supports stakeholders in developing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes and structuring the organisations they require.
Eco-organisations
Mautopia can contribute to structuring and deploying eco-organisations that let producers and importers pool their obligations within an organised value chain.
Industrial symbiosis
Industrial symbiosis creates synergies between companies through the exchange or pooling of materials, energy, information or services. One company's waste can become another's resource. Mautopia draws on its knowledge of the Mauritian ecosystem to identify and facilitate these matches.
Eco-design
Acting at the design stage reduces the environmental impact of a product or packaging before it even reaches the market. Mautopia supports manufacturers in finding solutions that reduce materials, enable reuse, explore alternatives and manage end-of-life in the Mauritian context.
Plastics
From plastic diagnosis to local solutions
The plastics challenge cannot be solved by simply swapping one material for another. Mautopia favours a life-cycle approach: avoid → reduce → reuse → collect → recycle → recover, with particular attention to the real existence of local end-of-life solutions.
Frequently asked questions
What you should know
What is Mautopia?
Mautopia is a Mauritian agency specialised in ecological transition. It supports businesses, institutions and territorial stakeholders in designing and delivering environmental projects in Mauritius and Rodrigues.
How does Mautopia help businesses manage their waste?
Mautopia can carry out a flow pre-audit, identify recoverable pools, develop a management plan, recommend sorting equipment, train teams and identify suitable collection, reuse or recycling value chains.
What is industrial symbiosis?
Industrial symbiosis consists of creating exchanges or pooling between companies so that materials, resources, services or by-products available at one can be used by another.
Does Mautopia support eco-design initiatives?
Yes. Mautopia especially supports manufacturers in reducing the environmental impact of their products and packaging by examining the materials used, reuse, alternatives and locally available end-of-life solutions.
Does Mautopia only work on waste?
No. Mautopia's activities also cover energy, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, and the challenges of planning and territorial resilience.
A specific challenge for your organisation?
Every situation calls for an answer adapted to the sector, the site, the flows involved and the solutions actually available in Mauritius.