Cempre makes available a large variety of publications about educational, business and technical aspects of waste. Below are summaries of these publications. To make your order, please verify the price table (for the publications that are for sale) below.
How to Take Care of Municipal Waste: Integrated Administration Manual
Municipal solid waste: integrated management" is, without a doubt, the most important publication in Brazil about how the municipal directors should best take care of the waste of their cities. It’s 246 pages cover all aspects of waste:
Collection of waste and street sweeping
Hospital waste
Closing up and re-measuring of waste
Locating, constructing and operating sanitary landfills
Composting plant
Street Scavengers
Recycling
Incineration
Legislation
"The new version of Municipal Waste" was launched in 2000, together with the Institute of Technological Research of São Paulo. It was distributed to all Brazilian mayors and is the work of reference about solid waste in the country.
Already translated to Spanish for application in other Latin American countries, it is being utilized as a base for the elaboration of a future manual by the World Bank about waste management in developing countries.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
The environmental question is not limited to peoples´s everyday lives. Understanding the connection between our lifestyle, our actions and the environment is the responsibility of every individual. Understanding the meaning of the life cycles of the products and services we use allows us to broaden our comprehension of our responsibilities and act in a more effective way in improving the way in wich we live.
This publication was conceived in order to clarify the fundamental concepts of LCA - Life Cycle Assessment - and make this powerful technique more accessible to all those who are in some way responsible for activitiesrelated to environmental management.
Reducing , Reusing and Recycling
Reducing , Reusing and Recycling: the eco-efficient industry (3 R´s) In accordance with precepts of sustainable development, Cempre has launched another publication containing up-to-date and strategic information on how to reconcile economic activity and environment.
Guide for waste selective collection
CD-ROMVersion
This publication aims to explain how to implement waste selective collection programs by municipalities. Many different systems are mentioned, like voluntary participacion, door - to - door, the contribution of cooperatives of street scavengers, among others. The initiatives described can also be easily adapted to other developing countries all over the world, specially in Latinamerica.
Guide to street waste picker co-operatives
The publication Guide to street waste picker co-operatives aims to answer basic questions on the setting up and management to street waste picker co-operatives all over Brazil. It brings together information ranging from the principles of the co-operative movement to legal procedures for organization and experiences of co-operatives in recycling material.
Recycling Notebooks
To make aware and technically orient specific segments of the market for the development of programs of selective collection of waste. This is the principle objective of the collection Recycling Notebooks.
The Recycling Notebook No. 1 is directed to the collection of office paper, supplying information necessary for the growing demand by companies that intend to promote the recycling of this material as a form of consciousness of the employees. Close to 90% of the waste generated in our offices is compost for recyclable paper. Beside the technical orientation, the notebook presents successful experiences and offers a report on buyers of shred paper and of distributors of recycled paper.
The Recycling Notebook No. 2 focuses on the role of the Municipalities in the programs of selective collection and sorting, with the stimulation of recycling. Produced in conjunction with the Brazilian Institute of Municipal Administration (IBAM), the notebook’s objective is to introduce the concept of recycling in the administrative actions of the Municipality. The material presents the municipal administrators various alternatives for promoting waste recycling, not with an isolated action, but as an integrated part of basic sanitation.
The Recycling Notebook No. 3 touches upon the practical aspects of selective collection in schools. It was produced in conjunction with the Rio-Cine Cultural Center (CIMA), the institution responsible for the development of an environmental education program in the public schools in Rio de Janeiro and Ceara, focusing on selective collection and recycling of urban waste. For environmental education campaigns, this notebook brings important assistance. It includes a report of other educational materials relating to recycling.
Is your business throwing away recyclable materials?
Recycling Notebook No. 4, made in partnership with SENAI of Rio de Janeiro and Associação Ecológica ECOMARAPENDI, deals with the practical aspects of how to mount a program of residue separation in factories. It explains efficient ways to mobilize the employees around the cause of selective collection, of the environment in general, and includes a "do it yourself" pamphlet for internal evaluation of the residues generated in offices, the assembly line, the dining hall, among other locations.
The Recycling Notebook No. 7 - his publication helps in the organization of a project of selective collection in residential and commercial condominiums, in the most diverse scales. Beyond tips on pass-the-I pass to implantation and operation, the publication contains posters that assist in the sensitization and orientation of the joint owners.
Recycling and Businesses
Do you want to make money through recycling? Cempre distributes the series "Recycling and Businesses" about business opportunities in this area, with the necessary information to implant your own recycling business.
This booklet, entitled Granulated Plastic- Profile of a Plastic Recycler, has as an objective to supply technical and economic information to set up a plastic recycling business. It has useful addresses and bibliographics references. The booklet also brings the simulated set up of a business dimensioned for a 100Kg/h production basis or a 775t/year basis for the processing of pre selected plastic material, resulting in a 591t/year basis recycled plastic pellets, with an annual operation receipt of US$219,850.
"Molded Pulp - Profile of a Paper Recycler", discusses about two recycling processes of newspaper shreds for manufacturing of packaging for fruit, fragile pieces, "fast food", among others. The manual process, called discontinuous, requires less investment and small scale of production. The automated process, called continuous, requires greater investment and large scale.
"The Scrap Broker and the Selective Collection" are directed to small and medium businesses that already operate in the commercialization of scrap, like surpluses of paper, metal, glass and plastic. The manual aims to teach the new opportunities resulting from environmental education being practiced in schools and factories. With more children and adults separating materials, increasing the quantity and the quality of scraps, increasing it’s resale price. It also includes a report of suppliers of equipment utilized in the separation of scraps.
Opportunities for recycling PET utilized principally for soft-drink packaging, are growing. "Bundling and Revaluation of PET Scraps", done together with the Brazilian Association PET Packaging Manufacturers (Abepet), shows how to mount a PET scrap business, offering two product options: bundles of used bottles or flakes made from these bottles.
Projected investment:
Bundled bottles: US$ 45,000
PET Flakes: US$ 233,00
"This publication, which was supported by Mercedes-Benz/Brazil, show technical and economical information to start a small enterprise on coconut fibers recycling, with emphasis on the manufacture of stuffing for automobile headrests and seats, rope, resistant doormats and brooms, panels for the construction business and charcoal brickettes with high heat producing capacity".
How to solicit publications and informations
Publication Title
Price R$
Postage R$
(without taxes)
Municipal Waste - Manual for an Integrated Management*
35,00
8,50 (913g)
Guide for Waste Selective Collection
15,00
5,00 (390g)
Guide for Waste Selective Collection (CD ROM version)
10,00
7,60 (180g)
Journal Series of Recycling
Price R$
Postage R$
(per unit)
Nº 1 - Office Paper Collection
10,00
3,00 (120g)
Nº 2 - The Paper of the City Administration
10,00
3,00 (150g)
Nº 3 - Selective Collection at Schools
10,00
3,00 (110g)
Nº 6 - Compost: The other Part of Recycling
10,00
3,00 (110g)
Nº 7 - Condominios
10,00
3,00 (160g)
Recycling Manuals & Business
Price R$
Postage R$
(per unit)
Plastic Recycling
10,00
1,80 (60g)
Newspaper Recycling (to produce molded pulp packaging)
10,00
1,80 (80g)
Selective Collection and the Broker
10,00
1,80 (90g)
Packaging and Revaluation of PET Scrap
10,00
1,80 (60g)
Recycling of Coconut FibersRecicladora de Plástico
Information & Service
List of Scrap-buyers by state**
Data Bank Ecodata (with more than 7 thousand articles)**
Telephone: 55-19-241-5111/5222
Library**
Didactical kit for the capacitation of collectors **(for Community Associations and Municipal administrations)
**Consultation by previous appointment by phone 55-11-3889 7806-8564, at Rua Bento de Andrade,126 - Jd.
Paulista - São Paulo - SP - Brazil.
Obs: For SEDEX postage-fees (more than 500g) outside the State of São Paulo, please contact CEMPRE.
*To place an order, simply deposit the amount that corresponds to price and postage of your ordered item(s) or send a money order to:
CEMPRE - Business Commitment to Recycling - Banco Itaú (Bank Nr: 341) Branch Cidade Jardim - 0196 - Account Nr 50589-5.
Fax your receipt together with the title(s) of the publication(s) (typed or in legible handwriting) and your name and address to the following number: 55 - 11 - 3889 7806-856
