Marcação: Plastic Waste

Trash Tech – how a mobile app for recycling, that doesn’t even require the user to have a phone, is helping waste pickers grow their income and their business

Over the last 18 months in Brazil, Vietnam and Mozambique, informal waste pickers have been using smartphone technology to coordinate the sale of recyclable waste, resulting in increased income for themselves and improved recycling rates in the cities where they operate. There are an estimated 20+ million informal waste pickers in the world, living mostly […]

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200T of waste removed from Guanabara Bay

Our circular economy team has celebrated the milestone of 200 tons of waste collected with the fishers involved in the ‘Fishing for litter in Guanabara Bay’ project and honoured them for International Fisherman’s Day, celebrated on 29 June. The day of recognition highlights this traditional craft’s role in combating ocean pollution, with each piece of […]

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Circular Action e parceiros da “Aliança para fim de resíduos plásticos” promovem a recuperação e coleta no Brasil

A Circular Action tem colaborado com a “Aliança para fim de resíduos plásticos” (Alliance to End Plastic Waste – AEPW) para promover a recuperação, coleta e adequada destinação de resíduos plásticos no Brasil. Na semana passada, nossa equipe apresentou a representantes do Grupo de Trabalho Regional da América do Sul da AEPW nosso projeto que […]

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Helping shape Angola’s EPR thinking

Last month while working on the roll-out of the KOLEKT waste management app in Angola, an AfricaRise programme funded by the EU, Circular Action Director, Thierry Sanders, was invited by the National Waste Agency of Angola to assist with the country’s thinking regarding introducing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation.  Calling on over a decade of […]

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Digitising the waste supply chain in Mozambique & Angola

The KOLEKT app is now in the hands of various different types of users in Mozambique and Angola, as part of the first phase of the study and pilot project to establish if a digital waste management solution could improve waste collection and recycling in Southern Africa. During March and April, Circular Action Director, Thierry […]

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Circular Beach Project starts training activities on plastic waste

Throughout May, BVRio’s circular economy specialist, Maria Accioly, has been leading capacity-building workshops for the workers of the establishments participating in the ‘Circular Beach’ project, developed in partnership between the EU programme Circular Plastics in the Americas (CPAP), BVRio, Riotur and Orla Rio. The project’s main objective is to promote sustainable tourism in Rio’s seaside […]

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Projeto de incentivo à reciclagem no Rio conclui fase piloto com forte legado para a gestão de resíduos na cidade

Nosso projeto em parceria com duas cooperativas de reciclagem no Rio de Janeiro concluiu com sucesso a fase piloto. Realizado pela Circular Action, o projeto promove a recuperação, coleta e adequada destinação de resíduos plásticos por meio da emissão de Créditos de Plástico financiados pela Alliance to End Plastic Waste (Aliança para Fim dos Resíduos […]

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BVRio joins Copacabana ‘Circular Beach’ Project

BVRio will play a pivotal role in benchmarking plastic use and waste on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro until December this year, as part of the ‘Circular Beach’ project run by The Circular Plastics in the Americas Program (CPAP). The 9 month long, multi-partner project aims to reduce plastic waste dumped on beaches, in […]

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