International Expert exhorts entrepreneurs to support the task of collecting and recycling waste
Laerty Dudas, Waste Coordinator of the State of Paraná, Brazil, urged businessmen to get involved in the process of collecting and recycling the waste that they help generate, otherwise it is very difficult to resolve the situation of the final destination of them.
He said that in Paraná there are 10 million inhabitants who produce, daily, 20 a thousand tons of garbage and that the program has done is to take advantage of the waste generated, in such a way that besides taking care of the environment, a source of income and jobs.
Laerty Dudas expressed herself in these terms by presenting the Desperdicio Zero program, successfully implemented in the Brazilian State of Paraná, to the participants of the Diploma in Municipal Environmental Management and Cleaner Production developed by the USAID Program for Environmental Protection.
The presentation of "Zero waste" to the members of the diploma was made on the initiative of the Environment Ministry, the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development and the USAID Program for Environmental Protection (USAID-PPA). The USAID Program for Environmental Protection (USAID-PPA) is executed by The Nature Conservancy and INTEC thanks to the financial support of the people of the United States through the United States Agency for Development (USAID).
In addition to the members of the diploma programs, Luz Patria Bonilla, from the Department of Environmental Planning of the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development, as well as the USAID Program Manager for Environmental Protection, Doctor José Contreras.
The Desperdicio Zero program is an initiative of the Government of the State of Paraná, through the Secretary of State for the Environment and Hydraulic Resources (SEMA), according to Dudas.
Dudas emphasized that for the program to yield results, it is necessary that the business assume its responsibility in the collection of the waste that it helps generate, which must be recycled, thus promoting the creation of jobs.
The Brazilian expert said that another of the important actions for the program to have results is the education of citizens, since in Paraná the establishment of the same included a massive communication campaign aimed at all segments of the population and companies, as well as also of an education program, which aimed to raise awareness among citizens about the importance of having a clean city.
In addition, a training program was carried out in which 119 a thousand educators from all over the State were made aware of the final destination they should give to each type of waste.