At Bepensa, we're celebrating #WorldOceansDay by remembering how when we work together, we can achieve great things. Through the Bepensa Foundation, we've focused our efforts on coastal waste recovery and the rehabilitation of affected marine and coastal ecosystems.
Ideas are promoted
The “Recycling Dunes” project, winner of the call for the university project “Ideas are Promoted”, in which students and teachers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), together with the Bepensa Foundation, continues its work to restore nearly 5,550 m2 of dune-beach ecosystem on the coast of Sisal, thereby protecting endemic species of both local flora and fauna. Learn more about this project here. https://bit.ly/2Ed2okC
Scorpion Reef National Park
The Alacranes Program aims to restore corals in the Alacranes Reef National Park through the implementation of nurseries, or coral gardening, which consists of cultivating coral fragments in nurseries and subsequently transplanting them to degraded reefs. This practice has been successfully applied at various scales. On a global scale, climate change is the main threat to reef systems, and these measures help to reverse, to a small extent, the degradation of these ecosystems, so important for marine life in the oceans.
Coastal Collection and Beach Cleanup Program
Since 2010, Bepensa Foundation has supported community groups of women in the ports of Dzilam Bravo and Sisal, who collect and stockpile recyclable materials to earn additional income through sales to the Foundation to support their families. This program aims to collect plastic waste from the coasts of Dzilam and Sisal, which would otherwise invade the coastline and mangroves.
All PET recovered through #ReQPET and our programs is collected and sent to Petstar, the world's largest food-grade PET recycling plant, located in Toluca and part of the Coca-Cola Mexican Industry. All recovered material is treated to form raw material for the manufacture of new PET products, thus integrating a sustainable circular economy.
By recovering 6 out of every 10 bottles we put on the market, Petstar can process 3.1 billion bottles annually, equivalent to filling the Aztec stadium 2.4 times or building the Chichén Itzá pyramid 5.6 times larger. All of this recovered PET is PET that doesn't reach the water, the oceans.
At Bepensa, we are committed to preserving the environment in the communities where we operate, leaving a legacy of sustainability for future generations.
