Recovering a river in Brazil: Startup aims to breathe life into polluted area
SAO PAULO — Traffic lines, honking cars and a polluted Pinheiros River that lacks any sign of life are routine sights for the more than 1 million people who drive daily through the Pinheiros Expressway.
But this scenario is about to change. At least partially.
Legado das Águas (Legacy of the Waters), a startup owned by the Votorantim Group, was appointed last December by the Secretariat of the Environment of the State of Sao Paulo to join Projeto Pomar Urbano (Urban Orchard Project) to help recover the Pinheiros River’s riparian vegetation using only native species of the Atlantic Forest.
By Eugenia Álvares Affonso via Boston University News Service