Circular economy

The extraction of raw materials and their indiscriminate disposal in nature poses a significant threat to the sustainability of the planet, as it does not allow ecosystems enough time to regenerate. In many cases, the damage becomes irreversible, endangering human life and various species of living beings.

The current predominant model of extraction, processing, and disposal of materials represents a significant environmental factor, with excessive demand for new natural resources and the generation of a large amount of waste. The circular economy offers an alternative to the current linear production model, which does not foresee the healthy return of materials to the economic cycle or to nature. The alternative involves managing finite resources to recover their value, prioritizing regeneration and reducing the use of materials.

Therefore, transitioning from the current production model in Brazil is essential for the country's ecological transformation. The ETP aims to promote the circularity of the productive sector and presents actions focused on the development and implementation of regulatory frameworks and fiscal incentives, aiming to promote the reuse, remanufacturing, recycling, and energy recovery of products, reducing the demand for new resources and generating less waste.

The ETP will also support, technically and financially, initiatives for Brazil to achieve the goal of ending open dumps, replacing them with more environmentally sustainable alternatives such as sanitary landfills; promoting recycling by strengthening and ensuring rights for waste pickers through a support program for municipalities to expand selective collection and use of biodigesters; incentivizing the construction of innovative solutions in the design of industrial products, considering the attribute of circularity (such as reuse, remanufacturing, recycling, energy recovery); building biorefineries, with the collection of used oil for the production of biofuels, among other actions.

Axis 5: Circular economy

• Technical and financial support to achieve the target already set by law to end dumps and replace with landfills by the end of 2024.
• Support program for municipalities to expand selective collection of waste and the use of biodigesters.
• R&D procurement: use of public purchasing power for mission-driven innovation, especially aimed at reusing waste (recycling and energy recovery) and treating organic waste, such as biodigesters.
• Comprehensive programs to stimulate the circular economy in the industrial sector (reverse logistics, reuse, product design revision for reuse, etc.).
• Review of taxation and regulatory measures to stimulate product circularity in the economy (reuse, remanufacture, recycling, energy recovery)
• Water and sewage: expansion of sanitation coverage (water and sewage) and actions to expand and technologically optimize the processes of wastewater treatment plants.
• Technological challenges for the reuse of waste and for the treatment of organic waste, such as biodigesters.
• Biorefineries: collection of reused oil as an input for biofuel.