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11/25/2013
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Brazil Agency
Rio de Janeiro - Collectors of the former landfill Gramacho in Duque de Caxias in the Baixada Fluminense , count from today ( 22 ) with the first pole of waste recycling in Brazil . The center was inaugurated on Friday. In the first stage of the project , about 140 scavengers have access to two warehouses facing the receipt , sorting , baling and storage of waste for sale.
At the end of this phase, scheduled for later this year , the state Department of Environment will deliver executive projects polo to funding partners . The reports will contain their expected costs , indicate that the construction of six sheds .
Thus , the space where the dump will have worked a total of eight with machinery sheds , two units of waste processing , as well as an administrative center for professional training courses and a crèche . The idea is to absorb 400 ex - pickers , promoting socio-productive inclusion.
According to the chief minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency , Gilberto Carvalho , who was at the inauguration , the river is a symbol that will inspire other states to initiate projects focused on sustainable actions . "We found an appropriate and fruitful way it worked , adding the ability to organize and fight for citizenship of the collectors , with the support of social entities and sensitivity of municipal and state governments , which stimulated the development of this project . Folks who was regarded as the margins of society with this fight can take a leap reaffirming their human condition and become important economic actors , "Carvalho said .
The State Secretary for the Environment , Carlos Minc , said the government's intention is to expand the recycling initiative . " We are in contact with UFRJ [ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ] so they can support us in this initiative , giving us waste so that the collectors here can recycle it ." According to him , the government intends to introduce a measure that cooperatives do not expect to take months to get an environmental permit . there will also be an awareness of the big companies .
Situated on the shores of Guanabara Bay , in Duque de Caxias , the Metropolitan Landfill of Jardim Gramacho , created in 1976 , was the largest open-air dumps in Latin America , and received daily about 11 tons of waste coming from the city of Rio .
The scavenging activity on site , who came to retrieve more than 200 tons per day of recyclable and reusable waste , moves in its environment , an economy that gave sustenance to over 15 thousand people .
With the closure of the landfill in 2012 , the pickers organized into cooperatives and association , assumed the responsibility of continuing the activity of scavenging and proposed to the federal and state government to set the pole.
The waste of capital that was taken to Gramacho happened to be transported to the Central Waste Treatment Municipality Seropédica . In partnership with Petrobras , the National Bank for Economic and Social Development and the Bank of Brazil Foundation , polo recycling Gramacho account with an investment of U.S. $ 12 million . The Duque de Caxias Refinery ( Reduc ) is available for solid waste pickers can develop the initial work waste .
Source : Brazil Agency
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