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Next edition: March 24-28, 2025
10am to 7pm | São Paulo Expo
Rod. dos Imigrantes - KM 1,5 - Brazil
Sustainability at Plástico Brasil
Plástico Brasil, the International Plastic Fair, recognizes the importance of sustainability in its initiatives. For us, sustainability represents a commitment to both the present and the future, highlighting our responsibility to promote an environmentally conscious, socially equitable, and economically viable world.
In the plastics sector, we face significant challenges regarding sustainability, including raw materials, recycling, carbon emissions, energy efficiency, waste generation, and the inclusion of professionals and technologies in the sector. However, we see these challenges as opportunities to innovate, seek efficient solutions, and promote more sustainable practices.
Plástico Brasil aims to be a platform to discuss and tackle these challenges, inspiring participants to adopt sustainable practices. By joining forces during events, we seek to strengthen a transformative movement in the industry, collectively building a sustainable future. We want the commitment of each participant not only as a response to current challenges but as a collective construction of a sustainable future.
As part of our commitment, we focus on three sustainability pillars.
For the industry, the training of professionals and the continuous development of skills for innovation are significant challenges. To contribute to developing technical skills and capacities among young people and adults, Plástico Brasil offers free content and other knowledge-sharing opportunities.
Ideas Park (Parque de Ideias): the main lecture stage primarily conducted by researchers and educational institutions. In addition to the free presentations during the five days of the event, the Ideas Park also features exhibition stands for partner institutions.
ABPol - Brazilian Polymer Association: a partnership promoting content and topics related to environmental and sustainability aspects linked to resins and raw materials for plastic production.
Encouraging diversification, technological modernization, and innovation in the sector while supporting productive activities, the creation of decent jobs, and growing small and medium-sized industries, Plástico Brasil promotes its content offerings at Ideas Park and other attractions focused on professional development and economic growth.
ABINFER BUSINESS CENTER: a space for showcasing companies in the tooling sector, with subsidized spaces and a unique auditorium, focused on sustainability topics for the industry.
SMED: a live workshop featuring rapid mold changes with a 100% automated process, completed in up to 5 minutes, optimizing a crucial part of the plastic manufacturing process.
To ensure our content is accessible and inclusive, the Ideas Park will feature a Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) interpreter for all presentations.
Plástico Brasil is an initiative of ABIMAQ (Brazilian Machinery Builders' Association) and ABIPLAST (Brazilian Plastics Industry Association), with institutional support from various national and international associations, institutions, and labor unions.
During the event, besides Ideas Park, other attractions are designed to focus on industrial innovation and significant management challenges.
Free shuttles: during the five days of the event, we offer free rotating shuttles at three strategic points in São Paulo to facilitate access to the event using public transportation.
Besides the content programming during the event and on digital channels, ensuring that everyone has access to information, Plástico Brasil guides all its actions and those of exhibitors around responsible consumption, including efficient use of energy and natural resources, waste reduction, and encouraging reuse and recycling, as well as responsible sourcing in the supply chain.
To follow Plástico Brasil's content, visit:
World of Plastic
Plástico Brasil Xperience
Reduction of printed materials with FSC certification;
Interactive map available on the Plástico Brasil Xperience platform;
Use of LED lighting in the pavilion and Informa spaces, and optimization of air conditioning use to reduce energy consumption;
Selective waste collection and environmentally responsible disposal of all waste generated at the event;
Service Areas (Exhibitor Service, Registration, and VIP Club) assembled with modular and reusable structures;
The carpet was made from recycled PET and PP, with parts reused from previous events. After the event, the carpet will be reused in future events or recycled and transformed into new products;
Vegan and vegetarian food options are available at the event's restaurants and snack bars;
At the end of the event, a designated area will be provided for the conscious disposal of credentials, which will be reused at future events.
Hiring People with Disabilities (PWD) in partnership with the PAE (Efficient Attendant Program);
Electric wheelchairs are available for accessibility at the event;
Free shuttles from strategic points (Congonhas Airport and Santos-Imigrantes Station) and alternative parking with shuttle service to the pavilion (Plaza Sul Shopping Mall).
Sustainability Highlights
Plástico Brasil addresses sustainability topics throughout the year, offering relevant content to the event audience through its digital channels.
Check out some highlights for 2024:
World of Plastic:
[Ebook] ESG in Practice
PET-PCR: learn about recycled resin for the food industry
Challenges and opportunities for the recycling market in 2024
Meet the professionals in recycling and circular economy
ESG: how to implement social responsibility in your company
Understand what ecodesign is and its importance for plastic products
We drive the furniture sector towards more sustainable practices by exploring environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) sustainability themes. This approach reflects a commitment not only to the present but also to the legacy for future generations.
To get to and from the event, use public transportation and the free shuttle service available at Santos-Imigrantes Station (Line 2-Green of the subway), Congonhas Airport, and Plaza Sul Shopping Mall, which also serves as alternative parking.
Consolidate all your business trips to make the most of your time at Plástico Brasil and in São Paulo.
You can save money by traveling to meet exhibitors individually or by scheduling a meeting with all of them during the event. This will help reduce your costs and carbon footprint.
Check with our partner travel agency for benefits and cost optimization for travel and accommodation. Learn more on the Travel & Accommodation page.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle can significantly improve well-being and physical and mental performance, whether at work, home, or an event.
Check out our tips on how to make the most of events:
Take advantage of the Well-being Space (Espaço Bem-Estar) to rest between content sessions;
It can be challenging to stand all day, so wear comfortable shoes;
Free Wi-Fi is available for all visitors; use the platform to participate in the event in a hybrid way, with more interaction, convenience, and efficiency;
Mobile chargers are available in the Well-being Space;
Stay hydrated throughout the event with regular breaks to drink water at hydration points supported by Europa water purifiers.
We want everyone to feel a sense of belonging and for our communities to feel inspired and benefit from the diverse identities, innovations, and ideas we present at Plástico Brasil.
We achieve this through:
Hiring People with Disabilities (PWD) in partnership with the PAE (Efficient Attendant Program);
Our commitment to listening to a wide variety of speakers;
Caravans from regional labor unions will attract and include more professionals from the furniture industry in the program.
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Better Stands is a program by Informa Markets, the organizer of Plástico Brasil, aimed at achieving zero waste from stands by 2030. The initiative encourages exhibiting companies to abandon the use of disposable (single-use) stands and prioritize the use of reusable structures.
By making their stand designs sustainable, builders and exhibitors will be recognized with Gold, Silver, and Bronze seals on their stands during Plástico Brasil.
Designed for 2030, this final level incorporates all elements of the Bronze and Silver levels, adding graphics, decorative items, and flooring to ensure zero waste generation.
Scheduled to be achieved by 2027, this level, in addition to including all elements of the Bronze level, requires that all structural objects, front and overhead signage, ceiling, and display stands be reusable.
This level involves the construction of stands where components, including walls, floors, furniture, equipment, and lighting, are 100% reusable, to be achieved at all Informa Markets events by next year.
Participation in the Better Stands program benefits the entire events market. The most important benefit is that adopting reusable structures will drastically reduce waste generation and, consequently, the environmental impact of events.
Help improve the sustainability of Plástico Brasil
As a visitor
- Consider how you will get to the event and whether you can avoid air travel or use low-carbon transportation, such as public transport, free shuttles, or carpooling;
- Recycle your waste at the venue and your hotel whenever possible;
- Consider choosing vegetarian and vegan food options and avoid food waste;
- Take only the giveaways or brochures you need and will use; consider if there are digital alternatives;
- When deciding where to stay, consider the hotel's environmental credentials. Also, learn about Plástico Brasil’s official travel agency.
As an exhibitor:
- Ensure that your stand can be reused by your company or your hired builder (Better Stands Program);
- Think about the waste your stand will generate and try to minimize it as much as possible. Ensure that unavoidable waste is recycled;
- Choose LED lighting and other energy-efficient equipment for your stand, and make sure to turn off your equipment at the end of the day;
- Optimize your trips by consolidating shipments and choosing logistics companies with strong sustainability credentials;
- Reduce paper distributions by going digital and purchasing sustainably certified paper where printing is necessary;
- Engage in the numerous initiatives and conversations throughout the event that aim to help facilitate and inspire sustainable development in your sector;
- Inspire sustainable development in your sector by promoting your company and the sustainability credentials of your products and services.
Sustainability at Informa Markets
Plástico Brasil is part of Informa Markets and the Informa Group. At Informa, sustainability focuses on our long-term impacts on our clients, colleagues, the communities in which we operate, and the environment. For this reason, Informa has developed the FasterForward approach to sustainable business.
Informa’s goal is to become an increasingly sustainable and positively impactful business. Through the FasterForward program, we are incorporating sustainability into everything we do and leveraging opportunities to help our clients and markets do the same.
FasterForward is a program structured in three parts. It has ambitious commitments and a wide range of activities, encompassing Informa’s business operations, our brands and products, and our broader community impact.
When it comes to sustainability, we’re moving faster.
Informa PLC is ranked first in the 2022 Dow Jones Sustainability Index in the global media sector. Read more here: Informa achieves global ranking in the media sector, leading the ESG index.
Contact us and share your story.
Would you like to work with us on the sustainability of our event? Would you like to share your own story and efforts? Have an idea? Contact the event and sustainability team at Informa for more information: [email protected]
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