Plastic caps that change lives: Our recycling at OSF

May 7, 2024 | News | 0 comments

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At ALMA, a plastic bottle cap can save lives and the planet. That is the spirit of our colleagues’ recycling scheme at the observatory, which aims to create a sustainable environment and helps children with cancer at the Luis Calvo Mackenna and San Juan de Dios hospitals.
The project was taken up again after the pandemic, says José Corro, our Power Team Operator. “Some people personally took them to foundations, until they left the site and it was abandoned. So one day I decided to continue with this project, but in a more organised way and involving more people.”

He adds: “Nowadays, many people don’t realise it, but they don’t throw away the bottle caps, they collect them and then take them to the collection points. It is very common to see desks with pyramids.”

The initiative, which combines solidarity and sustainability, begins with José collecting the caps collected by each of his colleagues at OSF and then taking them to the warehouse, where they are packed and prepared for their final destination.

César Ríos works in this phase together with Juan Lillo, our Warehouse Operator, who has been collaborating in the project for three years. “It’s very motivating, because you feel part of something very important that goes beyond work and daily life. You are helping others and yourself to have a better quality of life,” he says.

Thanks to the administrative work of Hernán Latorre and our Logistics team, the caps are transported to SCO, where Martín Díaz, our HR Officer, delivers them to the “Damas de Café” organisation at the Calvo Mackenna Hospital. “Big changes are made by the sum of many small initiatives, and we hope that as long as our colleagues know where these caps are going, they can support us and deposit them at one of the points we have at OSF,” he says.
To date they have already collected more than 200 kilos of caps that have been sent to the Calvo Mackenna Hospital, which makes them proud. Undoubtedly, recycling plastic bottles is an issue they identify as unfinished business, but they are optimistic about what they are doing today.

According to José Corro: “This makes me feel very happy, because I know that in some way we are helping people who need it very much, we are reducing pollution with our waste, and the campaign makes everyone feel that they are contributing, that they are part of this”.

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