Mission
Contribute towards conservation of the environment and the Campo Limpo System by means of self-sustainable management of the final disposal of empty packages of plant health products and by providing services in the solid waste area, with the involvement and integration of all links of the agricultural productive chain.
Vision
Be acknowledged worldwide as a center of excellence in the final disposal of empty crop protection packaging, as a reference in providing services in solid waste management and becoming self-sustainable in Brazil.
Values and Principles
- Integrating attitude: this is the leadership characteristic of the Institute, valuing team work, integrating the links in the agriculture chain and disseminating knowledge.
- Innovation: it is our dynamics, entrepreneurship, creativity and ability to overcome challenges that position inpEV as a global reference in the reverse logistics of empty crop protection packaging.
- Integrity: this means behavior based on ethics, respect for differences, transparency in all actions performed and providing accurate information.
- Social and environmental responsibility: it is the raison d’être of the Institute, which acts as the intelligence center of the Campo Limpo System.
- Safety: it is the care for the well-being and physical integrity of employees and all those involved in the Campo Limpo System, as well as the protection of information and assets.
Organizational
profile
inpEV is a nonprofit organization created by the crop protection manufacturing industry to promote the proper disposal of post-consumption packaging of this type of product. Headquartered in São Paulo, the Institute is part of the Campo Limpo System, in which it acts as the intelligence hub and is responsible for executing the reverse logistics of packaging across the country (learn more on pg. 28). It was founded in December 2001, in response to the determinations of Federal Law nr. 9.974/00, which established the principles for the management and environmentally sound disposal of empty crop protection packaging, and started its operations in March of 2002. The creation of inpEV has made it possible to integrate the different links of the agricultural chain and the public sector, and to guide the cycle of post-consumption packaging from the field to its final destination.
Brazil is a world reference in reverse logistics for empty crop protection packaging. Thanks to the Campo Limpo System, about 94% of the primary plastic packages sold in the country – which come in direct contact with products – and 80% of all packages sold every year receive proper disposal. GRI G4-EN28
The reverse logistics process managed by inpEV helps connect farmers from across the country and 5,000 dealers and cooperatives to a network of more than 400 fixed receiving units, located in 25 Brazilian states and in the Federal District. The units comply with the rules set forth in technical standards, laws and environmental permits. Most of these are managed by dealer associations, but six of them are managed directly by the Institute – Alto Parnaíba, MA; Boa Vista do Incra, RS; Rondonópolis, MT; Taubaté, SP; Unaí, MG; and Uruçuí, PI. inpEV is responsible for shipping the material received at the units to an appropriate destination (recycling or incineration).
Federal Law 9,974/00 and Federal Decree 4,074/02
This legislation set forth the concept of shared responsibilities among the agents of the chain regarding the process of receiving and providing final disposal of empty crop protection packaging and defined specific roles for each of them.
The supervision of compliance with these responsibilities is the responsibility of the public power which in conjunction with distribution channels and the manufacturing industry, also operates in the education and awareness of farmers about the importance of participating in the reverse logistics.
Shared responsibilities
Farmers: wash, make void and temporarily store the material according to technical guidelines; return the empty packages to the place indicated on the bill of sales and keep the proof of return (supplied by the receiving unit) for one year.
Distribution channel (retailers and cooperatives): indicate on the bill of sale the return location for post-consumption packaging; maintain such return locations; receive and properly store the material; issue proof of return to farmers; and educate and develop awareness among farmers about the importance of following the correct procedures and participating in the reverse logistics.
Manufacturing industry (represented by inpEV): remove the units stored at the receiving units; provide proper destination to this material (recycling or incineration); and educate and develop awareness among farmers about the importance of following the correct procedures and participating in the reverse logistics.
Public power: oversee compliance of different agents with their legal responsibilities; grant licensing to receiving units; and educate farmers on the importance of following the correct procedures and participating in the reverse logistics.
Luís Eduardo Cavalca, a farmer honored during the National Clean Field Day celebrations in 2017 by the Taubaté, SP, receiving unit.
Participation in entities that advocate on behalf
of the agricultural sector
GRI G4-16
The Institute is a member of CropLife Latin America, an international organization that defends agricultural productivity and sustainability, and partakes in all committees of both member entities: the National Plant Protection Association (Andef) and the National Union of Plant Health Products Industry (Sindiveg).
In 2017, inpEV had 76 employees, distributed between its administrative headquarters in São Paulo, the directly managed central receiving units and regional Operational coordinators (CROs), distributed across ten states and responsible for encouraging integration among all agents co-responsible for developing the Campo Limpo System.
Still in the same year, inpEV changed the location of its headquarters. Its main office, previously in the Pinheiros district, was relocated to the Brooklyn region, both in the city of São Paulo.
importers, registrants or manufacturing companies of crop protection products
entities representing the agricultural sector
History
of inpEV
- Seven entities representing the agricultural sector and 27 manufacturers unite to establish inpEV on 14 December, thereby continuing a study initiated in 1992, which focused on understanding the flow of empty crop protection packaging in Brazil, based on the enactment of Federal Law 9,974/00, which defined the issues related to the proper disposal of empty crop protection packaging in Brazil.
- The reverse logistics system, which later would be named the Campo Limpo System, starts its operations in March Its structure, at the time, consists of 33 central receiving units and an outpost. Along this same year, more companies affiliate themselves to inpEV, totaling 39 members.
- Creation of the Olimpio character, a scarecrow that personifies the educational and awareness messages of the SCL.
- With 43,000 tons of disposed empty packages since the System was created, Brazil becomes a global reference on the matter.
- The National Clean Field Day (DNCL) is created on August 18 with the purpose of offering greater visibility to the System and increasing awareness of society. Since then, all links in the agricultural chain have been celebrating the excellent results of the System on this date.
- Campo Limpo Plastic Transformation and Recycling S.A. is created, intended to close the management cycle of crop protection packaging within the chain itself by manufacturing new packaging and resins resulting from recycling the material received at the units.
- The first receiving unit managed by inpEV is inaugurated in Rondonópolis, MT.
- Campo Limpo Plastic Transformation and Recycling S.A. launches Ecoplastic®, the first packaging in the world to be produced using resin recycled from empty crop protection packaging. It is also the first packaging manufactured using recycled raw material to receive UN certification (group II, 1.4 g/cm³ density) for ground and maritime transportation of hazardous products. Ecoplastic® materializes inpEV’s commitment towards innovation and its quest towards the economic self-sufficiency of the SCL.
- Disposal amounts to 94% of the total primary plastic packages sold.
- inpEV actively participates in discussions that would lead to the definition of the PNRS (National Policy on Solid Waste).
- The Institute launches an educational program for Elementary School students aligned with the National Curriculum Parameters (PCNs) of the Ministry of Education (MEC). This action gives rise to the Campo Limpo Environmental Educational Program (PEA).
- inpEV conducts a pioneering project in the state of Paraná to eliminate CHC (hexachlorobenzene) and other obsolete crop protection products stored in rural properties since their prohibition during the 1980’s in partnership with public and private institutions.
- adEV (the Scheduled Return of Empty Packages) is implemented to offer farmers the possibility of scheduling when to return their products and to provide central units greater predictability of demand, resulting in time and efficiency gains.
- Start of the leftover post-consumption receiving project at the Campo Limpo System units.
- Inauguration of the Campo Limpo Plastic Lids and Resins, in Taubaté, in the countryside of São Paulo State, and start of the Ecocap production, a high performance sealing system for packages.
- Closing ceremony of the Project to Properly Dispose of Obsolete Crop Protection Products in São Paulo during the celebrations of the National Clean Field Day, at the Taubaté, SP, central unit. The event was attended by the Governor of São Paulo, Geraldo Alckmin, and by the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Environment.
- Implementation of the second phase of the obsolete crop protection disposal project in the state of Paraná, in particular CHC.
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