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THE “REACH OUT TO THE FUTURE” PROJECT RECORDED IN ITS HISTORY
AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE FROM 2017, BY FULFILLING - THROUGH
ITS PARTICIPATION WITH THE RESULTS OF THE PROGRAM - THE
GOALS OF THE 1ST PHASE OF THE SECTORIAL AGREEMENT FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF REVERSE PACKAGING LOGISTICS IN GENERAL. THIS
COMMITMENT OF THE PACKAGING COALITION INVOLVES ABIHPEC AND
21 OTHER ASSOCIATIONS OF THE BUSINESS SECTOR, OF THE NATIONAL
MOVEMENT OF WASTE PICKERS AND OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

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In synergy with environmental discussions ers, billing and proof of results via invoices and
on the issue of post-consumer packaging, the material marketing. Actions like this cause the
Reach out to the future – Recycling, Work and market to become more and more formalized
Income program was developed by ABIHPEC in and professionalized.
2006. The proactive initiative of the cosmetics,
toiletries and fragances sector, which preceded Also, in 2017 we had the release of the in-
the publication of the National Solid Waste stitutional Reach out to the Future video. "The
Policy, is supported by two other associations: images illustrate the central focus of the program by
ABIPLA, from the cleaning products sector, and looking at the three fundamentals of sustainability:
ABIMAPI, from the biscuit, bread, industrialized environmental preservation, social benefit and eco-
pasta and cake segment. nomic feasibility," said Rose Hernandes, director
of the Environment Department of ABIHPEC.
The program has an investment structure that
provides direct support to cooperatives of recy- “REACH OUT TO THE FUTURE” PROGRAM
clable waste pickers, from supporting the im- RESULTS
provement of logistics or infrastructure of the
warehouses to dissemination actions in the mu- In 2017 alone, about 112,000 tons of recyclable ma-
nicipalities. terials were marketed by the cooperatives partic-
ipating in the Reach out to the Future program.
One of the highlights of 2017 is the comput- The program forwarded materials that would go
erization system of all program data that coop- to the landfill for recycling, generating work and
eratives send to ABIHPEC. Thereby, it is possi- income for more than 4,000 waste pickers.
ble to perform even more effective analyzes on
issues such as productivity, number of waste pick-