The program ends the year with 55 partner points, two warehouses and five collector cooperatives on site
Prolata, a non-profit association created by the Brazilian Association of Steel Packaging (Abeaço), closed 2021 with excellent results in Baixada Santista. In all, 535,000 kilograms of post-consumer steel cans were collected for reuse and correct disposal, which reduces the impact of solid waste on the environment.
The association ended the year with 55 partner points (retail paint and construction stores, located in the municipalities of Santos, São Vicente, Cubatão, Guarujá, Praia Grande, Bertioga, Mongaguá, Itanhaém and Peruíbe); two partner warehouses located in the municipalities of Itanhaém and São Vicente and five partner collectors' cooperatives in the municipalities of Bertioga, Cubatão, Guarujá, Santos and São Vicente.
In addition to managing the means of receiving post-consumer steel cans, Prolata provides support to partner cooperatives. According to Cristine Fulchini, coordinator of Prolata cooperatives, the support provided ranges from the regularization of cooperatives, passing through the donation of PPE (personal protection equipment) to support for adapting the productive layout. —The cooperative ABC Marbas, from Cubatão, received Kaizen intervention, improving production flows— adds Cristine.
Thais Fagury, president of the Brazilian Steel Packaging Association (Abeaço) and director of Prolata, recognizes the importance of the actions carried out in 2021. —Strengthening the reverse logistics system in the coastal region is constant work and, with the support of our partners and the local Public Ministry, through the Gaema nucleus of Baixada Santista in the figure of the prosecutor Dr. Almachia Zwarg Acerbi. The results are being very positive for the environment,” he says.
Since the beginning of the Prolata operation in Baixada Santista, in 2019, a total of 942 tons of post-consumer steel cans have been collected.
Source: Fator Brasil Portal – 01/22/2022
