CropLife Latin America covers 18 countries in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, M�xico, Nicaragua, Panam�, Paraguay, Per�, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Two successful stewardship programmes include: 1) CuidAgro: Promotes the responsible use of pesticides in 18 countries in Latin America, offering training courses to trainers, farmers, retailers, exporters, housewives, agriculture students, agronomists, and medical and nursing personnel; 2) CampoLimpio: Is the pesticide industry responsible management program of its empty containers. It promotes the devolution of the triple rinsedcontainers, punctured to avoid their re-utilization and to be able to proceed to the proper disposition of them in Latin America.  CuidAgro is developed by multiple alliances involving ministries (Agriculture, Health, and Education), universities, ONGs, local city governments, agricultural organizations, and international cooperation agencies. CuidAgro is executed by our network of National Associations affiliated to CropLife Latin America. They promote pedagogic strategies according to each country necessities. CropLife Latin America develops the training materials, follows up the advance in each country, facilitates the exchange of experiences and supports each association. CuidAgro trained over 145,000 people across Latin America in 2013. This year two animated videos and three informative posters were released as new training tools.  CampoLimpio recycles mostly all the rigid plastic returned by the farmers, transforming it into more than 30 permitted useful elements such as plastic wood, drainage piping, parking cones and lower parts of vehicles. All these products designed to have the minimum contact with humans and fulfilling all standards of traceability required by the industry. CampoLimpio accounts for more than 2,000 primary collection centers plus over 400 collection centers equipped with special machinery to process the recovered rigid plastic. CampoLimpio recovered 50,077 metric tons of rigid plastic from empty pesticide triple rinsed containers.

Pesticide stewardship programmes from CropLife Latin America: Product safety and container recycling

248th National Meeting (2014)

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