Creative businesses try to solve Brazil's growing trash problem
- 12 years ago
Brazil is an emerging economy, but its growing wealth is also leading to a growing trash problem.
In Brazil "catadores" are people who work for cooperatives and pick through trash for valuables
to recycle. Cooperatives are key to the recycling system now in place here in Brazil, only two percent of
Brazil's domestic waste ends up being recycled. 60% of allBrazil's trash ends up in open-air landfills, in Rio de Janeiro.
The government has made it mandatory for all states to have a sustainable trash plan by 2014 --and that's
opening up new doors for creative business.
Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from Sao Paolo.
In Brazil "catadores" are people who work for cooperatives and pick through trash for valuables
to recycle. Cooperatives are key to the recycling system now in place here in Brazil, only two percent of
Brazil's domestic waste ends up being recycled. 60% of allBrazil's trash ends up in open-air landfills, in Rio de Janeiro.
The government has made it mandatory for all states to have a sustainable trash plan by 2014 --and that's
opening up new doors for creative business.
Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from Sao Paolo.