Improving Pesticide Packaging Recovery in Chile
Monday, August 25th, 2008Last December (while Temas was on hiatus) four Chilean Government agencies and three industry groups* signed a clean production agreement (APL) on pesticides for agricultural use. Among the commitments made under the APL were several regarding recovery of used pesticide packaging, including increasing the number of collection centers 50% within 24 months; increasing the number […]
Paraná Increases Pesticide Packaging Recovery
Monday, August 4th, 2008Synopsis in English: In June the southern Brazilian of Paraná announced that it had increased its recovery of pesticide packaging by 20% (by weight) over the prior year. Just last year Paraná announced that they want to become the first state to comply 100% with the federal mandate to take back such packaging. North America […]