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

Today, on Amazon Day, we are pleased to announce that the AmazoniAtiva platform will be taken forward by a new organisation.

BVRio has taken part in a workshop for the co-creation of Circularity of Plastics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, promoted by the Circular Plastics in the Americas Programme (CPAP) on 24 August.

Often deemed hard to recycle, beverage cartons are the focus of a new initiative run by Circular Action, a BVRio group company, in partnership with Tetra Pak and Packaging Recycling Organisation Vietnam (PRO Vietnam), which will not only provide a recycling solution, but which will also deliver additional income to potentially hundreds of informal waste pickers.

Since April this year, the second phase of our 'Fishing for litter' project has been supporting 25 families from Ilha do Governador, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to remove waste from Guanabara Bay.

In June, BVRio completed an 18-month-long pilot project in partnership with PREVENT Waste Alliance that benefited ten Brazilian waste picker cooperatives and a Mexican network of collectors through the issuance of circular credits.

BVRio endorses the Forest sector priorities plan in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, highlighting the creation of specific credit lines for the forest sector and incentives for Private Natural Heritage Reserves (RPPN).

BVRio is coordinating the independent Environmental Committee of the Responsible Commodities Facility (RCF) made up of the biggest names in global conservation efforts.

Anniversary Project Case Study: Development of the Brazilian timber Due Diligence tool for timber importers

The project PlanaFlor held the first of a series of workshops with stakeholders to assess the draft of the strategy that aims to accelerate the Brazilian Forest Code roll-out in the coming years.