Global Commitment 2021 Signatory Report

Establishment or revision of legal measures, including bans or restriction on specific categories of plastic packaging and/or products considered problematic or unnecessary: Implementing Bill 17.261/2020, which prohibits the provision of single-use plastics in hotels, restaurants, bars, bakeries, among other commercial buildings. The Bill also establishes progressive fines as economic disincentive in case of noncompliance.

Changes to public procurement to support products without problematic or unnecessary plastic: Municipal Secretariat of Government and Municipal Secretariat of Transport -

Acquisition of paper cups for water and coffee and acquisition of a wooden coffee stirrer to be made available in cafes in public buildings.

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns:

Municipal SecEncouraging sustainretariat of City Districts

- Pottery mugs for use in the work environment were provided to employees of the agency; installation of trash cans for recyclables in all sectors and posting of awareness posters to reduce the use of plastic.

Municipal Secretariat of Finance – Conducting a campaign to publicize the 17 SDGs; installation of recyclable bins in all pantries and cafeterias; an e-mail and office campaign on reducing the use of disposable plastic products.

Encouragement of voluntary actions: Municipal Secretariat of City Districts

- Keeping up with the ReciclaSampa (https://www.reciclasampa.com.br/ ) website, which is aligned with the objective of eliminating unnecessary plastic waste and/or products.

Promotion of innovation in business models and/or other alternative solutions to drive elimination of problematic and unnecessary plastic packaging and/or products: Encouraging sustainable business through barriers to the supply of inputs for hot beverage machines and disposable cups that are not biodegradable and that allows the use of reusable mugs .

Other actions taken: Municipal Secretary of Government -

• exchange of all drinking fountains that used plastic gallons of water for

Purifiers;

• Implemented selective collection with removal of individual waste baskets from desks in all offices in the city hall, with selective bins available in the corridors.

ePS,Single-use plastic bags,Single-use plastic bottles,Single-use plastic cups,Single-use plastic cutlery/tableware,Single-use plastic straws, balloon sticks

Establishment or revision of legal measures, including bans or restriction on specific categories of plastic packaging and/or products considered problematic or unnecessary: Municipal Urban Cleaning Authority

- Offering technical review on legislation proposed by the Legislative.

Provide more details about the selected actions - Establishment or revision of Extended Producer Responsibility schemes: Municipal Urban Cleaning Authority

- Offering technical review on EPR schemes.

Provide more details about the selected actions - Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: Municipal Secretariat of Transport and Municipal Secretariat of Government - maintain the carrying out of Campaigns.

Encouragement of voluntary actions: Municipal Secretariat of Government - Through campaigns, encourage the elimination of the use of plastic and demonstrate how proper disposal can protect the environment.

None reported

Changes to public procurement to support reuse solutions/systems: Municipal Urban Cleaning Authority

Support bills that encourage the reduction of problematic or unnecessary single-use plastic packaging and reuse models;

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: Municipal Secretariat of Transport - carrying out an educational campaign for employees.

None reported

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: Municipal secretariat of transport - carrying out an educational campaign for employees.

Investment in infrastructure: Extension of door-to-door and point-to-point delivery schemes, aiming the universal household selective collection.

Promotion of collection, sorting, reuse and/or recycling schemes (e.g. deposit return schemes): Expansion of VDPs (Voluntary Delivery Points) and Ecological points “Ecopontos”) to increase voluntary delivery of recyclable waste in the city.

https://www.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/cidade/secretarias/subprefeituras/amlurb/

Establishment or revision of economic incentives (e.g. subsidies) or disincentives (e.g. taxes, charges): Emergency conditional cash transfer program for formal and informal pickers and picker cooperatives and associations during the Covid-19 pandemic, so workers can stay socially isolated in quarantine.

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns:

Maintaining and expanding online material on recycling and recycled

material within the city in real time: https://www.reciclasampa.com.br/

http://www.reciclometro.com/home.php

Coordinating and supporting all Education Awareness Campaigns on the issue.

Promotion of collaboration with the private sector, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and civil society organisations: The Municipal Education Department, through its environmental education coordination, in partnership with Global Social Impact and the sustainable startup SO+MA, coordinated a pilot project with the purpose of integrating the school community in favor of the environment. Some of the actions include receiving recyclable materials in schools and, in exchange, the people who took the waste, especially plastic, received gifts. In six weeks, there was an accumulation of 1.03 metric tons of plastic.

Other actions taken: municipal urban cleaning authority

Provision of infrastructure (permits to work within State facilities, funding rent

and other bills, etc.) for the functioning of several certified picker cooperatives.

https://www.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/cidade/secretarias/subprefeituras/amlurb/

Providing training and support for pickers’ cooperatives, in efforts coordinated with consulting agencies in the private sector.

Landfilled: 29037 t of PET Bottles, 464672t of soft plastics, and 194651t of hard plastics.

Investment in infrastructure: Continue investing in providing a good environment to picker cooperatives, in

Promotion of collection, sorting, reuse and/or recycling schemes (e.g. deposit return schemes): Continue investment in delivery points, containers, and municipal selective waste collection, in order to keep raising recycling rates as a whole and plastic products recycling rate, specifically.

Delivery of awareness raising and education campaigns: Municipal Urban Cleaning Authority -

Continue and expand education campaigns and information provided to civil society on the importance of recycling.

Municipal Department of Transport - Implementation of selective garbage collection in all CET units and dissemination of an educational campaign to employees.

Promotion of collaboration with the private sector, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and civil society organisations: Municipal Urban Cleaning Authority –

Continue with the aforementioned initiatives regarding the private sector and picker cooperatives.

None reported

Support for products containing recycled plastics through public procurement: Promote more sustainable public purchases, encouraging whenever possible, the purchase of products made from recycled plastic;

Monitor technologies in recycled plastic packaging, in order to facilitate moving towards more sustainable public procurement.

Establishment or revision of economic incentives (e.g. subsidies) or disincentives (e.g. taxes, charges): Discuss in a working group with the private sector responsible for reverse logistics and the plastic industry measures to increase the recycling rates of this material, get to know the recycled plastic market and analyze possible incentives for the market.

1. Promote coordinated action of specific Environmental Education to reduce pollution by plastics;

2. Foster environmental education based on the work of collectors of recyclable materials, so that they can be trained to act as environmental awareness agents regarding the use of plastic - also considering the inclusion of 5000 collectors;

3. Form an intersecretariat working group on the Global Agreement for the New Plastics Economy to discuss the contribution of each sector in the city to achieve each item of the Agreement, including behavioral and social change through strategic communication that addresses aligned plastic pollution the Common Vision and specific objectives of the General Agreement.

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The city of São Paulo was invited to become a Strategic Partner of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The document that elevates the city of São Paulo to the Strategic Partnership was signed in October 2020. This partnership seeks to expand the scope of EMF's work with the municipal administration within the scope of the circular economy on several topics. For this, the Foundation performed a series of interviews with the municipal departments with the potential to work together. As a result of the interviews and the analysis of the Targets Program (2021-2024), the SampaCircular roadmap was proposed, a Plan of Engagement aimed at drawing up a work plan on the circular economy in priority areas for the city

In addition, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Cities Program invited the City to join the Circular Public Procurement WG. The objective is to develop capacities so that cities can, at the end of the process, apply the knowledge acquired and implement at least one circular public purchase policy.

Impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic: Municipal Urban Cleaning Authority Covid-19 pandemic has slowed down many initiatives in order to guarantee safety not only within public service, but also for pickers’ cooperatives and other recycling sectors. Furthermore, recycling rates have dropped during the period in which cooperatives were closed down, since waste was then sorted exclusively in Mechanical Sorting Centres, from March, 2020 to November, 2020. Municipal Secretariat of Transport (SMT) Since March 2020, after an emergency situation was decreed in the city of São Paulo to face the COVID-19 pandemic, many SMT employees started to perform their tasks in a telecommuting regime. As a result, the number of employees who attend CET's work units daily was reduced. In this context, we consider that the time was not opportune for the implementation of the selective garbage collection project, considering that the program would not reach all employees, as well as the few resources available during this period.

Limited technical and institutional capacity for implementation: Municipal Urban Cleaning Authority This year we are passing through an administrative reform in which we are making some institutional changes in bureaus and agencies responsible for waste management within the municipal administration."