All industries will have to see themselves in a new role: that of being a mechanism to cope with climate change
Two thousand twenty-three will be the year of “circular economy“. Proof of this is that the Ministry of Finance is preparing a new “green package”, called the Ecological Transition Plan, with the aim of relaunching the country with sustainable actions and promoting the transformation of the Brazilian production sector, which will include a block dedicated to waste treatment and the circularity of materials such as such as plastic, present in the production chain and questioned for some time.
The package could lead to tougher measures and laws, and the private sector has shown a huge appetite for circular economy solutions, due to pressure from investors, in general, eager to support more sustainable solutions.
It doesn’t matter the industry. Plastic is present in all production chains. Taking input out of the picture, without scalable alternatives, is compromising the entire global industrial ecosystem.
The complex tangle, built over decades, is instead an opportunity to act on several simultaneous fronts, such as, for example, raising awareness of disposable products and their environmental implications, the development of substitute materials (such as bioplastics) and technologies recycling facilities essential for re-incorporating industrial waste into production.
If plastic is a transversal material in the sector, it is with this same prejudice that the reindustrialization of Brazil must be planned: with solutions that cross sectors and also help decarbonisation. From the adoption of new production models, with the reduction of the use of virgin material, to recycling, up to the return of what is now called waste, in the production chain.
The private sector has a responsibility to accelerate solutions primarily for plastics. Even if the core activity of the industries is obviously not exclusively that of finding solutions to the great environmental challenges and structural gaps of our country, all of them will have to see themselves in a new role: that of being a mechanism for tackling climate change. / LUCIANA ANTONINI RIBEIRO IS CO-FOUNDER OF EB CAPITAL
Source: Terra
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