Campo Limpo System G4-26 & DMA

Engagement of agents directly involved in the crop protection sector and articulation of different receiving strategies allows the Campo Limpo System (SCL) to achieve full national coverage and ensures the correct final disposal of all packages returned to the receiving units by rural producers. This total corresponds to 94% of primary packages (that have direct contact with products commercialized year after year and 80% of the total volume of crop protection packages (plastic, cardboard and metal).

By means of SCL, the received material is sent to final disposal. Most packages return to the productive system as raw material for inpEV partnering recycling companies, which produce new crop protection packages (Ecoplástica Triex), sewage piping, lubricant packaging, power transmission pole crossheads, conduits and electric trays, among others. In 2014, this represented 91% of all received material.

The remaining 9% include packages that cannot be recycled or that were not submitted to the triple wash process or pressure wash by the farmer when preparing the solution. These are flexible packages or that condition hydrophobic products.

Nowhere in the world can an initiative like SCL be found for post-consumption crop protection packaging reverse logistics. According to a sector study done by the National Bank for Social and Economic Development (BNDES), ¹ this collection reaches 76% in Germany, 73% in Canada, 66% in France, 50% in Japan and 30% in the US.

¹ SILVA, Martim F. de O. e COSTA, Letícia M., A indústria de defensivos agrícolas, “Estudo Setorial de Química”. In: BNDES Setorial Química, 2012, p. 233-276.