Siclo Rural (Accelerator)

Company Description: Siclo Rural is a “B” company which collects rural plastic waste for recycling from Argentine farms. The company has eight storage centers strategically distributed all over the country. We guarantee traceability to the producer through an environmental and social impact. How I do it? ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: We link the recycling industry with the farm, offering a collection service of rural plastic waste, ensuring a correct traceability of all the processes from farm to industry. ● We audit the companies which recycle the materials, guaranteeing a final sustainable disposition in each step of the process, such as use of energy, water treatment, among others. ● We plant five trees in deforested areas per ton of recycled plastic. ● In some of the cities where we work, we carry out the industrial treatment of waste in collaboration with the public sector for these recycling processes. SOCIAL IMPACT ● We work with informal collectors, to whom we offer training on health and safety, handling of materials, as well as accounts and tax management in order to make them work in a formal way, as a requirement of Siclo Rural. ● A percentage of the waste value is donated to the most needed social organizations. ● We develop an educational environmental project in which we integrate other comp