Partner Institution:

Fundação Movimento OndAzul – OndAzul (Blue Wave Movement Foundation)

Project:

Recycling & Culture Plant - Plant

Program:

Generation of job opportunities and income, besides creating alternative solutions to reduce the problems generated on the environment by plastic residues

Objective:

Implement options for better productivity and new products research & development

Locality:

Vigário Geral community, Rio de Janeiro City

PARTNER INSTITUTION AND PROJECT

OndAzul foundation was founded in 1990, brain child of Gilberto Gil - one of the most expressive and well-known Brazilian artists, who is also an environmental activist and Minister of Culture (Brazil) in the Lula Administration. The main objective is the creation of job opportunities, the generation of income, and the recycling of plastic bottles for use in the production of furniture frames The Vigário Geral community was identified as an ideal space to serve as model for this development project, which associates the social subject to environmental issues. In addition, the Foundation regularly edits publications and performs events and programs linked to ecological themes.

Brazil produces six billion two-liter plastic bottles type pet a year and less than 2% are recycled. The numbers show a negative result, taking into account the serious environmental and social problems caused by this entire residue.

Assembly line

Vigário Geral was the community identified as a ideal space to serve as model for this project development, which associates the social subject to the environmental issue in a perfect harmony of interests.

Vigário Geral community water groups are basic contributors of Guanabara Bay, and there is a very close relationship between the accumulation of this kind of trash and the problems generated by its impact on the environment.

Debris in Guanabara bay, Rio de Janeiro	Collected pet bottles

The project has as the objective the generation of job opportunities and income, besides creating alternative solutions to the plastic residues destiny problem, especially for the two liters plastic bottles type pet, through the implantation of a recycling Plant, using the bottles to produce furniture’s internal structures.
The Plant performance is aimed to commercialize the products manufactured by the project, seeking the proposal sustainability through the production of pet furniture and the execution of mobilization activities, focused in Environmental Education, to provoke behavior change with the garbage. It generates 14 direct jobs for the community and qualifies ten people more in cooperatives management through Fundação OndAzul partnerships. 

Two years after beginning the project, the Vigário Geral community could verify a sensitive reduction on the problems caused to the environment by the plastic residues accumulation, becoming a reference in the art of transforming garbage in citizenship. 

Assembly the furniture's structure

Hype Fair - Rio de Janeiro

ACTIVITIES THAT CAN BE DONE BY THE VOLUNTEER

The Volunteers will get to know all of the production apprenticeships and they should participate in these activities to evaluate options for better productivity. Research and new products design development can, and should be motivated. Read more...

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
 

	New products development;
	Increase of the project's beneficiaries per capita income;
	Improvements on products’ conservation state and stockpiling;
	Gain in productivity obtained by improvements introduced in the whole process, as reduction of: production average time, rejected items, residues, among others;
	Increase on mobilization and training activities;
	Increase of participants in the Environmental Education activities;
	Enlargement on the horizons of the community's members involved in the project, by possibly experiencing exchanges between various cultures;
	Gains increase with products' commercialization;
	Number and type of activities developed;
	Number of people benefited with the activities done by the volunteers;
	Volunteer's interest level;
	Integration with the other volunteers and employees (Plant and Iko Poran).