MADERA PLASTICA MENDOZA SAS

With the award we want to expand our environmental, economic and social impact. improving our machinery, doubling our production and making some processes more efficient.

We want to process 2 tons of single-use plastic waste per day.

In Argentina, more than 5 million wooden vine posts are replaced each year due to breakage, more than 1.5 million trees are cut down to replace them

We manufacture 100% recycled and recyclable plastic poles for vineyards and livestock industries
Our goal is to recycle as much single-use plastic as possible, not to use water to wash off the residue and to reduce tree felling, replacing wooden poles with more durable and resistant plastic poles.
We work only with plastic waste recovered by cooperatives of urban reclaimers, municipalities, social organizations and companies to avoid child and informal labor.
We are a triple impact company and we promote the circular economy

PLASTIC WASTE - currently our company processes more than 1000 kg of waste per day hard-to-use single-use plastic

2. FELLING TREES - our product replaces the wood from the felling of trees,
especially native forests and slow-growing hardwoods such as lapacho and quebracho

3. URBAN RECOVERERS - we give a business possibility to urban reclaimers
since we process a type of waste that is generally discarded due to its heterogeneity, such as the
single-use plastic waste.

4. PHYTOSANITARY PACKAGING- AGROCHEMICALS - we are authorized container operators phytosanitary products, giving a second life to a waste that is normally burned or buried, returning in the form of a product to the field, closing the virtuous circle of recycling and promoting circular economy

5. MUNICIPALITIES - NGOs: we encourage and disseminate citizen participation in activities of source separation and recycling. We process 100% of the love bottles (bottles filled with plastic) that are generated in the province of Mendoza. We manufacture urban furniture with the same
waste

Our innovation is in the network that we promoted to collect plastic waste. As a triple impact company, from our beginnings, we had the objective of impacting society.

That is why we decided that one of our strategic partners would be the municipalities and we actively work with them and their inhabitants to facilitate separation at source.

We currently work with 7 municipalities of Mendoza, Municipality of Junin, Godoy Cruz, Tunuyan, Rivadavia, Maipu and the city of Mendoza.
We also work with people in vulnerable situations such as cooperative urban reclaimers, we advise them and buy plastic waste that was separated and discarded.

Another action is the promotion of separation at source through the NGO Botellas de Amor. Campaign that promotes the separation and recycling of single-use plastics at home. We recycle 100% of the waste that is collected in this campaign.

We help the foundation of the Dr Humberto Notti Pediatric Hospital as godparents, donating what was collected by bottles of love.
We give talks and promote recycling in primary and secondary schools

Our project has a triple impact so it can be measured in the environmental, social and economic dimension.
Environmentally, we measure the impact in relation to the community where we work, Junin Mendoza. Our plant recycles 25% of the total plastic generated by this community
Socially, we measure the impact in how the population begins to participate in concrete actions such as separation at source, differentiated waste collection, awareness campaigns and talks to schools and institutions.
Currently our enterprise processes the plastic produced by 10,000 people per day