THE ENVIRONMENT

Marmocil uses a cutting technology without the use of chemical products. Water is used, which is fully reused after treatment. For such reuse, the company uses a system of separating the stone dust from the water in the cutting and polishing processes. The dust, after it is separated by decanting and pressing, has as its final destination a sanitary earthwork, following all the environmental legislation rules. As for the water, after the filtering process, returns clean to be used in the productive process.

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COMMUNITY

Environmental education program
With the purpose of fulfilling its social function, Marmocil invests on research, education, and environmental improvement. Currently, an environmental education program is beginning to be implanted and involves three schools in the company headquarters neighborhood.
The project provides for teachers qualification and the distribution of didactic materials focusing on themes chosen by the schools themselves. Other goals are the implantation of a small greenhouse for seedlings at each school in the project and the revitalization of the free areas in such schools and in the district.

Reinforcing its internal commitment to the environmental issues, the company also keeps an environmental education program with all its staff and third-party technical team. They participate in the selective collection of waste throughout the company’s industrial and administrative unit, separating the waste and donating that which can be recycled to recycling associations and cooperative units.

Social program
The recyclable waste selected at the company by selective collection is donated to ASCAVIVE – The Vila Velha Waste-Pickers Association.
ASCAVIVE currently has 18 members, former street-dwellers, who participate of all the process stages, taking turns between the external work (of waste collection in residences and stores) and the internal work, at their headquarters, where the waste is selected, weighed, pressed, and stored until its commercialization.