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One partnership signed between two companies in Rio Grande do Sul intends create containers with solar energy to assist the work of recycling centers and help preserve the environment.
A idea is to develop a container so that machines who carry out the process recycling works through solar energy. With this, the process would be done in a way 100% sustainable.
A partnership encompasses companies Likso, which offers tools to reduce the impact of plastic waste produced by society, and Solar Power Brazil, which has been operating in the national photovoltaic sector for more than a decade.
“The project seeks to equip recycling center containers with solar energy, so that the modular machines are autonomous and 100% sustainable, without depending on polluting energy and with substantial economic gains”, explains Mario de Azambuja Jr, director of new business at Solar Power Brazil.
According to him, after developing the project, the idea is also to take the container recycling to various places in Brazil, like on a beach, where plastics can be collected and the entire recycling process can be carried out.
A Likso informed that also started consultancy for construction of recyclable machines for low-income communities and that, last year, the The company's first project was approved in Porto Alegre, in Vila Santa Terezinha,, providing equipment for a container to have the recycling center active.
