To make an electronic equipment, we need to use natural resources. Those natural resources are heavy metals. Heavy metals are easily accumulated, once it reaches your organism, it doesn't go away.
RECICLA SAMPA PRESENTS RECYCLING ELECTRONIC WASTE When you dump such material in a place that's not fit for it, soon the heavy metal will contaminate the soil and water around it. This is a laptop part which contains that sort of metal. If there's no use for the equipment anymore, us, as citizens, must discard it properly so that the natural resource can be used again.
Because, if it's just left in the wardrobe or a drawer, a new equipment will be produced and that same resource will have to be taken from somewhere, either from nature or, what would be ideal, from the recycling electronic cycle. We take everything with batteries or that's got a plug. Stove, washing machine, fridge, keyboard, mouse.
We're a cooperative that offers a waste management service. It's normal for the consumer, due to lack of knowledge, to think that, because we are linked to São Paulo city hall, it's their responsibility to do all of that, but it isn't. They city hall is already doing their part, they provide the consumers with disposal spots.
If I don't oblige with my duty as a citizen of properly dispose of something, I won't use the resource available and will increase devastation. Besides contaminating the environment, if you don't bring the material, it will have no other use. If you bring it here, it will be taken to the correct place.
We already know how to do it, we have the equipment for it and know all the procedures. We recycle an average of 40 ton per month, what sounds like a lot, but it isn't really. If Coopermiti were to cover the whole city of São Paulo, we would have to deal with around 130 ton per day.
So we're not suited for what the city needs. I think this is a challenge for Brazilian society, for everyone, in general.
