Beyond Marão, no packaging!

About this project

<p>In order to increase the application of circular economy principles in the recycling market, the projects aims to create deposit refund systems for beverage bottles and cans.&nbsp;The goal of the project is to contribute to the selective collection of waste from plastic beverage packaging and non-reusable cans, aiming to achieve a direct positive impact on collection rates, the quality of the material collected and the quality of recycled materials, creating opportunities for the recycling sector and the recycled materials market. This project intends to design, implement and test, through a pilot project, the future system of incentives for return in the sector of packaging of plastic drinks and cans, not reusable in a low density territory, located in the Municipality of Vila Real. The activities consist of installing reverse vending machines in the main retail stores in the municipality of Vila Real, for the collection of plastic beverage packaging and non-reusable cans, in order to guarantee a long-term solution for recycling. It is also considered to implement structures for the collection of gum and cigarette butts whose final destination is recycling and with this material to produce new materials, such as e-bricks, install a playground built entirely with recycled material in order to promote the circular economy associated with packaging and beverage cans and&nbsp;involve civil society in the collection of waste deposited along the urban section of the Corgo River.</p>