Reverse logistics company faces challenges such as low price paid for material and lack of appropriate places for sorting in different states
OR glass it is one of the common daily materials that can be recycled. However, your chain reverse logistics in Brazil he faces problems. The low commercial value of a kilo of glass reduces the interest in cooperatives; in addition, the sorting centers are concentrated in the South and South-East regions. In an attempt to change this situation, the to boot eurcycle tries to structure the supply chain and ensure better remuneration for collectors, with the use of government.
The tool to do this are the recycling credits, created through environmental offsets. They work like this: if a company puts 20 tons of packaging on the market, a portion of that total must be withdrawn from the market to comply with the National Solid Waste Policy. However, if you can’t do that removal yourself, buy recycling credits from eurecycle and other companies, which guarantee that the required amount will be recycled.
“Partners connected to the platform submit a series of credit issuance approval documents and have a stock of these credits,” completes Bueno. The companies that purchase the certificates can go even beyond what is required by law and receive the neutral seal, for those who withdraw the same quantity of material they place on the market, and the regenerative seal, for those who withdraw twice as much as they enter.
Regions
Making glass more attractive to collect solves part of the problem, but not all. The problem remains of the lack of suitable places to carry out sorting and recycling in large parts of the country: for example, a load would have to travel from Manaus to Sergipe to be recycled, making the cost of transport higher than collected.
In addition to credits, another solution to make the supply chain viable was to create local hubs that could receive loads from operators, sort them and send them to the recycling industries in larger quantities. As of 2022, six routes have been structured and a seventh is under construction. According to eureciclo, the number of operators registered on the platform who work with glass has jumped from 19 in 2020 to over 100 in 2023.
The work of structuring the hubs involves three phases: mapping the region to understand issues such as distance, necessary logistics, costs, whether there is a local technology that can be improved, and planning; the second is an experimentation phase to check if the design worked, if necessary reinforcing points such as the purchase of collection equipment and raising awareness of local operators; finally we enter the perpetuation phase, in which at most some adjustments are necessary. “In mapping we see the possibilities that exist and try to understand what technologies are in place,” says Bueno.
Even if it helps to overcome the issue of distances, there are still reflections. Credit for the same amount of recycled material in Amazonas is more expensive than in Mato Grosso do Sul, which in turn is more expensive than in São Paulo. Currently, the eurecycle project is present in seven states (Amazonas, Bahia, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Piauí) and is expected to expand to Espírito Santo, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte and Rondônia.
The startup calculates that since the beginning of 2021, 8,400 tons of glass have been recycled and returned to the production chain, and the expectation is that the volume will be around 6,000 tons in 2023. Waste sorting and reuse capacity has grown more than 440%. “In the end, credit is just a means for everything to take place as efficiently as possible and for system management to take place in the best possible way”, sums up Bueno.
Source: Terra

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