Canastra Sustentável - Selective Collection Program

The Agenda Canastra Sustentável – Selective Collection Program aims to promote socio-environmental development for the territory of Serra da Canastra, involving the municipalities of Piumhi/MG, Pimenta/MG, Capitólio/MG, Doresópolis/MG, Vargem Bonita/MG, São Roque de Minas/MG and Córrego Fundo/MG, and is carried out in partnership with GAIA Social, ViraSer and municipal City Halls. 

This is a structuring practice that involves all links in the waste management, recycling and disposal chain, with partners from the Serra da Canastra region itself, with efforts to properly ensure compliance with the legal framework and to structure the operation of door-to-door selective collection with City Halls. Other actions include the engagement with large generators and the strengthening and professionalization of collectors' cooperatives, seeking to add value to the waste for income generation through a network marketing strategy. 

The social aspect is an inseparable part of solid waste management and, therefore, there is also a concern with increasing the generation of jobs and for women and men in situations of economic and social vulnerability, aligned with the promotion of health and safety at work in the sorting centers, with a productive layout and use of PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) 

With the maturing of the relationship with the environmental secretariats, city halls and the Canastra intermunicipal consortium, the Intermunicipal Plan for Integrated Solid Waste Management (PIGIRS) was established, to be developed from 2022 onwards.