Between 2002 and 2018, Brazil took from the plantations 500,000 tons of empty packaging of agricultural pesticides. The initiative is part of Sistema Campo Limpo, a Brazilian reverse logistics program, which provides an environmentally correct destination for packaging, which is sent for recycling or incineration.
According to information from the National Institute for the Processing of Empty Packaging (Inpev), 94% of primary plastic packaging returned by rural producers is now being recycled or incinerated. Of this total, 90% is recycled, giving rise to the raw material for the production of more than 30 artifacts, among them new packages that return to the defense industry or other segments of the economy.
Benefits– From 2012 to 2017, environmentally correct disposal of empty pesticide packaging allowed for sufficient energy savings to supply 2.5 million homes, waste reduction in amount equivalent to that generated by a city of 500 thousand inhabitants in 11 years , as well as the reduction of some 625 thousand tons of CO2 equivalent, or 1.4 million barrels of oil not extracted.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.