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Partnership with the City of São Paulo enabled a pioneering initiative in the country

This May, the city of São Paulo won its first public electronic waste collection point. The inauguration took place at Ibirapuera Park, the most visited in Latin America, and is a joint initiative of the Secretariat of Green and Environment, the Principality of Monaco and the Greenk Movement.

Students from the school Guilherme Dumont Villares, associated with UNESCO, carried out the first disposal of electronic waste at the collection point in Ibirapuera Park.

In addition to Ibirapuera, other parks in the city will receive public collection points, in an unprecedented initiative in the country, such as Trianon and Mario Covas parks, in the Paulista region, Carmo and Vila Guilherme parks, among others.

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The partnership made the initiative viable at no cost to the city's coffers. "The Principality of Monaco is super honored to be part of this initiative. For us, it is a great satisfaction to present the city with the fifteen collectors. The Principality is very engaged with sustainable causes, believing that these actions make a difference in the world. the engagement of the population so that all this work achieves the deserved result. So, we invite all São Paulo residents to participate in the initiative and get involved, so together we can make a difference here in the city of São Paulo", calls Gisele Abrahão, Director of GVA, communication and marketing company of the Monaco Tourism Office in Brazil.

The Secretary of Green and Environment, Eduardo de Castro, highlighted the importance of the facilities of public collection points for the city. "This is a very important day for the City of São Paulo. At zero cost for the city, we are going to install a total of 15 collection points, between parks and public buildings in the city. A concern with sustainability and the future of our children" .

"We realized that it's not enough to just inform and summon the population for correct disposal. It is necessary to involve the public power and the private initiative so that, all together, we can start to change the reality of electronic waste disposal in our country", says Fernando Perfect, from the Greenk Movement.

Computers (notebooks and CPUs), printers, cell phones, tablets, monitors, accessories, cables and small electronic equipment will be collected.

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E-waste discarded in the collectors and initiatives of the Greenk movement will be collected and transported by companies certified and approved by Green Eletron, an entity founded by Abinee - Brazilian Association of Electrical and Electronics Industry to promote the circular economy of electronics in Brazil.

After that, there will be a sorting and everything that is still in conditions of use will be forwarded to the Computer Reconditioning Centers (CRCs), of the project of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications. At CRCs, equipment will be remanufactured and donated to public schools promoting digital inclusion. The products and parts that are out of use will be sent to a certified environmental company, which will dismantle them so that the different materials can be reinserted into the production chain as raw material.