Brazil collects 95% of the packaging of pesticides and is an example for developing countries
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Brasilia - Brazil has already collected over 100 tons of containers of pesticides used by farmers since it came into operation, the National Institute of Processing of empty packaging (Inpev) in March 2002. The rate of return came in 2008 to 95% and that of other countries that have similar programs.
The coordinator of pesticides from the Ministry of Agriculture, Luís Carlos Rangel, Canada, Japan and the United States rate of return between 20% and 30% of packaging. The differential Brazil, he says, is the surveillance system implemented here, in which the dealer and buyer are identified and tracked the package back, even with penalties provided.
"This is the system that the country identified as the most intelligent and we are able to teach the world that they can add that knowledge to the system of collection of packaging them," said Rangel.
The Inpev, a nonprofit created to manage the final destination of empty containers of pesticides, was established in 2001 and to account, among its members, with 99% of manufacturers of agricultural and Brazil's seven main entities of class sector. The resources for its operation come from the contributions that each company gives to the Office, proportional to its billing.
About 95% of cartons are collected and recycled the rest, incinerated. The environmental gain generated by the volume recycled in six years of the program amounts, according to the institute, to plant 491 thousand trees, or 98 tons of carbon dioxide - the main greenhouse gas effect - unless the atmosphere. The system generates more than 2.5 thousand direct and indirect jobs.
The chairman of the House Supplies Sector of the Ministry of Agriculture, Christian Simon, believes the program can serve as an example for other sectors.
"It is considered an example of a working world where everyone involved: the farmer, resale and particularly the industry, subsidizing the work. Do what was a rural garbage, which pollute the environment, a useful commodity, through the production of tubes for optical fiber, the plastic containers for lubricants, to pesticide packaging. All participate in a chain of exemplary cooperation and could serve for other sectors that are concerned with the environment and sustainability, "reports Simon.
Source: Agência Brasil
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