Fishers are pulling an astonishing amount of upholstered furniture from the mud as they look for recyclable materials.

After a successful trial, the second phase of our project in partnership with Italian social enterprise, Ogyre, to manage the removal of solid waste from Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, by local fishers, is now underway.

BVRio and UN-Habitat signed a Memorandum of Understanding, this month, agreeing to collaborate to enhance waste management and resource efficiency in the world’s cities.

BVRio’s 'Guanabara Bay clean-up’ project has featured in the new International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Blue Prints Series launched today. The series outlines business models and illustrates the investment structure of a number of Nature-based Solution (NbS) projects.