SPPIRe

Place: Barranquilla, Santa Marta, Cartagena y Buenaventura

Start date: 01/02/2021

General Objective: lead and implement activities that encourage professional recyclers to collect low value plastics. Also, work along iWrc and SAI to apply Fingerprint social standard on recyclers’ organizations. This way, there’s a solid base for recyclers to generate knowledge and improvement opportunities in terms of policies and circular economy models.

Type of project: materials circularity and knowledge generation.

Strategic objective: objective one and two.

Public target: recyclers’ organizations.

Summary

26 recyclers’ organizations benefited (25 in Caribbean coast and 1 in Buenaventura).
2578 professional recyclers directly and indirectly benefited.
Contribution of 12.946 ton thanks to Plataforma Pacifico and Movimiento Re.
5 residue recollection workdays on strategic ecosystems.
ODS 12: contribution to the increase of recycling’s rate in influential cities.
ODS 13: reduction of CO₂ emissions due to diligent residues’ management.
ODS 14: reduction of plastics on marine ecosystems.