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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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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The second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution delivers fresh hope for the establishment of a Global Plastics Treaty in 2024. While ultimately, we think there is a need for strong restrictions on single-use plastics, we still need to adopt solutions to the current situation. And, in this context, businesses with a […]
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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 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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O projeto “Pesca de resíduos”, executado pela BVRio em parceria com a empresa social italiana Ogyre, entra agora em uma terceira e ampliada fase, com a inclusão de 10 pescadores e um coordenador da colônia do Fundão, na Ilha do Governador, Baía de Guanabara, no Rio de Janeiro. Com a adição de um terceiro time […]
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The project ‘Fishing for litter in Guanabara Bay’ is about to complete its first year of starting the collection of solid waste from the marine environment in the surroundings of Ilha do Governador. Since April 2022, the 23 fishers from the two traditional fishing villages involved in the project, Praia dos Bancários and Z-10, have […]
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Lesson #1: Innovation requires flexibility. Reflections from Circular Action Director, Thierry Sanders on the first few months of the project, and turning things on their head. ‘Trickle down economics’ doesn’t work. It may have been a term commonly heard by economics students born before 1980. But even in 2022 in Saigon, Vietnam this outdated economic […]
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Circular Action Director, Thierry Sanders, reflects on this year’s Plastic Waste Free World Conference & Expo and on the evolution of waste collection. The hall of the Plastic Free World trade fair at the Kolner Messe is bustling with international visitors passing by stands of paper packaging as alternatives to plastic. Also on display are […]
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A new project from Italian company, Ogyre, is funding the collection of tons of plastic from the sea and mangroves of the Guranabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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