Brazil collects 45,500 tons of empty packages in 2015

The Clean Field System has disposed in an environmentally correct way 45,536 tons of empty packages of agrochemicals in Brazil in 2015. The number indicates a growth of 7% comparing to 2014.

The states of Tocantins, Pará and Mato Grosso do Sul obtained the greater percentage growth at the quantity sent, according to an analysis of the National Institute of Processing of Empty Packages (inpEV). The biggest quantities of empty packages came from Mato Grosso, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul – which combine correspond to 65% of the total in the country.

The institute reached the goal established for 2015 of giving a final destination environmentally correctly of 45,500 tons of empty packages of agrochemicals. Since the start of Clean Field System in 2002, over 360,000 tons of these materials were disposed correctly. For João Cesar M. Rando, director-president of inpEV, “the results show that the system has achieved to attend the growing demand of the Brazilian agriculture”.