We believe in the great benefits that plastics can offer as a raw material to practical products and great solutions to our daily lifes, but we cannot deny the fact that plastics have also become a major source of pollution when it becomes waste. This compromise plastic usage and offer a threat and risk to the plastic industry.
Therefore Exchange 4 Change Brasil together with ABIPLAST the Brazilian Plastic Industry Association commit to bring this topic for discussion among the industry through a capacity building programme allowing the sector to understand the challenges and benefits of being part of this debate.
The New Plastics Economy aims to set an initial direction and contribute to the evidence base by synthesizing information across many dispersed sources assessing the benefits and drawbacks of plastics packaging today. Circular Economy thinking makes the case for rethinking the current plastics economy promoting new sources of materials, new designs and actions to reduce plastic waste leakage to the ocean.
This voluntary commitment gets both organizations to work together to deliver a Circular Economy Training Programme which aims to educate all ABIPLAST members and key stakeholders of the value chain on the circular economy principles and the new plastics economy. The programme will demonstrate the value of actions already implemented by ABIPLAST, highlighting existing materials and involvement in global initiatives such as the Operation Clean Sweap and produce new educational material and training activities.
Deliverables:
- Two training workshops dedicated to the members and key stakeholders;
- A circular economy guide to educate the sector and materialize all the learnings from the workshops;
- Promote best pellets handling practices through the Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) Programme
- Increase plastic packaging recycling
- Highlight the importance of understanding the impact of marine litter.
Progress reports
June 2018
Circular Economy Training and Technical Brochure. Workshop 1: The first Circular Economy training will be delivered to all members from Sao Paulo district. The event will present a broad view of Circurlar Economy demonstrating all sector opportunities. A technical report with be produced with the contribution of all attendants. Workshop 2: The second training workshop will be extended to all players of the value chain, ABIPLAST members and its clientes. The main objective is to promote business networking, identify business opportunities alongside the chain, influence key partnerships, and new product design. Another report will be consolidated aiming to highlight specific case studies. Circular Economy Guide: A final brochure will be produced to register all the findings of the workshops and be a referene educational maerial. The brochure will be divided in two parts: a technical part describing the circular economy principles and a case study part highlihgting the best practics from the brazilian sector.
June 2018
Promote best pellets handling practices through the Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) Programme: an MOU was signed by ABIPLAST to deliver the best practices described at the Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) Programme. The OCS is an environmental management programme that aims to implement best pellets handling practices within the production process to avoid leakage to the environment
June 2018
Increase plastic packaging recycling - Continue to demonstrate the importance of recycling practices by the use of two educational material: Plastics Reciclability Guide published in April 2016 aiming to increase the knowledge and therefore the rate of post consume recycling AND Oxi-degradable Usage Statement that aims to highlight ABIPLAST position of not using this additive on the plastic production as it compromises product recyclability
June 2018
Highlight the importance of understanding the impact of marine litter - ABIPLAST is contributing to the discussion of the Clean Seas Forum, an initiative aimed at mapping the issue of marine litter in Brazil. The initiative is led by University of So Paulo and focus on the development of a broad diagnostics of the marine litter state around the Brazilian coast and educational programmes.
