First year for KOLEKT waste management app sees 5400 tonnes of recyclables sold
The KOLEKT waste management app has just turned one, and what a year it’s been! We set out to get the app into the hands of the very people who helped design it, informal waste pickers, and to test it in real world environments. In three different countries, in four very different situations we’ve honed […]
Pilot project encourages households in Rio de Janeiro to recycle more
A waste recycling cooperative in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is participating in a pilot project run by Circular Action Hub founder BVRio and the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (Alliance) to encourage higher levels of recycling by households. The project will also provide additional income to waste pickers who sort the material, with the potential […]
BVRio helps waste picker cooperatives receive R$ 3.9 million in investment
BVRio assisted the cooperative Coopama in applying a social project approved in a recent public selection to add value to the solid waste disposal generated by Petrobras facilities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Coopama has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with BVRio to receive support from our circular economy team to implement an investment […]
Flip-flop mountains: the polluted ocean is a picture of reverse logistics challenges
In six months, Fishers have collected 3.6 tons of flip-flops and sandals from Guanabara Bay. Picture a 7.2-kilometre line made up of 25,000 flip-flops that have ended up in the ocean. BVRio’s team has been making weekly visits to oversee the collection of waste removed from Guanabara Bay, in the project run in partnership with […]
Circular Action presents solutions to waste collection in two global circularity events
“It is time to increase collection in a socially inclusive way.” – Thierry Sanders Last week, the Circular Action team, Director Thierry Sanders and Circular Economy specialist, Maria Accioly, flew to participate in two brilliant circularity events taking place in Berlin, Germany, and in Quito, Ecuador, run by PREVENT Waste Alliance and Sustainable Challenge LATAM. They […]
Sofas bogged down in the mangroves of Guanabara Bay; a look into Rio’s seacoast swamped with mattresses and upholstered furniture
Fishers are pulling an astonishing amount of upholstered furniture from the mud as they look for recyclable materials. Following the work of our project ‘Fishing for litter in Guanabara Bay’, one concern comes to the fore. We have been surprised by the amount of sofas, armchairs, mattresses and upholstery being removed from the mangroves by […]
BVRio scopes possible partnerships for plastic circularity in Rio
BVRio took part in a workshop for co-creating Plastics Circularity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, promoted by the Circular Plastics in the Americas Programme (CPAP) on 24 August. BVRio is keen to play a role in creating partnerships to implement future pilot projects over the next two years, through developing Circular Action Programmes (CAPs) to […]
Tetra Pak carton recycling initiative begins in Vietnam benefitting hundreds of informal waste pickers
Often deemed hard to recycle, beverage cartons are the focus of a new initiative run by Circular Action, a BVRio group company, in partnership with Tetra Pak and Packaging Recycling Organisation Vietnam (PRO Vietnam), which will not only provide a recycling solution, but which will also deliver additional income to potentially hundreds of informal waste […]
Flip-flops, upholstery foam, plastic and sofas – the surprising catches Guanabara Bay fishers are making
Introducing a series of articles on the project ‘Fishing for litter in Guanabara Bay’ Since April this year, the second phase of our ‘Fishing for litter’ project has been supporting 25 families from Ilha do Governador, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to remove waste from Guanabara Bay. To show the development of this social and […]
Pilot project completes with 350+ waste pickers benefitting
In June, BVRio completed an 18-month-long pilot project in partnership with PREVENT Waste Alliance that benefited ten Brazilian waste picker cooperatives and a Mexican network of collectors through the issuance of circular credits. The project also supported the further development of the Circular Action Hub and the Circular Credits Mechanism (CCM). In total, circular credits […]