Recycling refrigerators in Brazil | Global 3000

People who can't afford a new fridge in Brazil buy a second-hand one. That means almost one in ten fridges here are more than 16 years old and use far too much electricity. The major power companies in Brazil have to invest 0.5% of their turnover in energy efficiency.
That is why they are distributing new fridges in the favelas in exchange for old ones. The old ones are then recycled. A new recycling plant, installed with the support of the International Climate Protection Initiative, is capable of dismantling up to 400 thousand fridges a year in an environmentally friendly manner.