G-1684

Plastic Recycling-Adding Value

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Project Description

Region: South America

Country: Brazil

Location: Rio Claro SP

Total Budget: $31,350

Area of Focus: Community economic development


Solid waste recycling brings environmental and social benefits, particularly income to people with low professional skills.

This project will benefit COOPERVIVA, a cooperative located in the city of Rio Claro - Brazil, that collects and sorts recyclable material, such as plastics, glass, paper and metal.

The objective of this project is to add value to the plastic waste designated to the recycling process.

Plastics are separated and sorted according to their type, such as PET - polyethylene terephthalate (plastic bottles), PEAD - high density polyethylene (plastic bags and other packaging), PP -polypropylene (hoses, ropes, cables, textiles), mainly.

Currently the material is sold the same way it is collected, to an intermediary company that will process it through cleaning, grinding and drying, and that will sell it to the industry that will do the recycling.

With the equipment that is the objective of this project the cleaning, grinding and drying process will be made by Coopervida, letting it to sell the material directly to the recycling industries, aggregating value to the material and increasing the income of the workers.

Currently the price of the unprocessed material is around US$ 0,40 / kg and the price for the clean and grinded is around US$ 0,60 /kg, Total amount now collected is 40 tons monthly and 35 families are working for Coopervida.

Only the price increase means 50% income increase.

Furthermore, the equipment will allow an increase of cooperated workers to 55 in 12 months and the proportional increase in the amount of material processed.

Pay back of the investment in the most conservative projection is expected in three years, but it can be reduced to one year with the aggregation of more families and consequently more material to be processed.

Primary Host Partner

District: 4590

Rotary Club of: Rio Claro-Alvorada

Primary Contact: Edna Nicoletti

Email: ednamnicoletti@gmail.com

Primary International Partner

District: 7450

Rotary Club of: Central Chester County (Lionville)

Primary Contact: Vasanth Prabhu

Email: vprabhu39@aol.com

Project Status

Dropped
This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped.

Project listed for the 2018-19 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Rio Claro-Alvorada (4590)

24-Aug-18

$1,000

$5,000

$6,000

Central Chester County (Lionville) (7450)

24-Aug-18

$1,900

$5,000

$6,900

District 3000 DDF

11-Nov-18

-

$3,500

$3,500

Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation

$1,450

$13,500

$14,950

Total

$31,350

Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.

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History Log Entries

24-Aug-18

System Entry

System Entry: Creation of project page.

15-Sep-18

System Entry

System Entry: Pledge of $5,000 DDF by Deepak Gupta of District 3012.

11-Nov-18

by Antonio Carlos CAadoso

System Entry: Pledge of $1 by Anotnio Carlos of the Rotary Club of Campo Mourão, District 4630.

11-Nov-18

by Antonio Carlos CAadoso

System Entry: Pledge of $2,500 DDF by M. P. Ramasamy of the Rotary Club of karur, District 3000.

12-Nov-18

by Mauro Carvalho Duarte Junior

System Entry: Pledge of $1 by Mauro Duarte of the Rotary Club of Maringá-Colombo, District 4630.

12-Nov-18

by Mauro Carvalho Duarte Junior

System Entry: Pledge of $1 by Mauro Duarte of the Rotary Club of Maringá-Colombo, District 4630.

20-Nov-18

by Edna Nicoletti

System Entry: Pledge of $5,000 DDF by of District 3012.

20-Nov-18

by Edna Nicoletti

System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged".

16-Mar-19

by Vasanth Prabhu

GG application has been submitted to TRF.

16-Aug-19

by Augusto Scorza

Project closed and being implemented.

2-Sep-19

System Entry

System Entry: Fully Pledged project dropped per lack of response to the carry-over notification emails.

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