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The company has already delivered recycled textile yarn balls in the towns of Cachiyuyo and Incahuasi in Atacama; in the coming weeks, deliveries will continue in Romeral and Guayac\u00e1n, followed by the Huasco and Copiap\u00f3 valleys.<\/strong><\/p>\n As part of its commitment to a different kind of mining\u2014sustainable with the territory, the environment, and local communities\u2014Compa\u00f1\u00eda Minera del Pac\u00edfico (CMP) has permanently implemented a textile recycling program across all its operations. Through this initiative, workers deposit their unused corporate clothing in designated containers, giving these materials a second life.<\/p>\n In the second stage of the program, CMP partners with Ecocitex, a textile recycling company, to transform the collected clothing into subproducts such as yarn balls, pouches, and keychains. These items are then delivered to local communities as resources to support their entrepreneurship and productive activities.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s remarkable is that the yarn production process uses no water or chemical products, making it 100% sustainable. This aligns with our purpose of driving sustainable development for both the territory and its people. We have already carried out deliveries in the towns of Cachiyuyo and Incahuasi in Atacama, and in the coming weeks we will continue in Romeral and Guayac\u00e1n in Coquimbo,\u201d said Javiera Far\u00edas, Environmental Compliance Superintendent for the Elqui Valley at CMP.<\/p>\n For Luisa Villalobos, from the Diaguita Mishqui Guintui Indigenous Community in Cachiyuyo, the initiative is highly valuable: Similarly, Nule Riquelme, president of the Incahuasi Tourism Services Association, highlighted that the program encourages recycling while providing communities\u2014mainly women-led businesses\u2014with valuable supplies: In total, the program has produced 7,152 subproducts\u2014including yarn balls, pouches, and keychains\u2014made from more than 100 kilograms of recycled corporate clothing collected across CMP\u2019s operations in the three valleys where the company is present.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The company has already delivered recycled textile yarn balls in the towns of Cachiyuyo and Incahuasi in Atacama; in the coming weeks, deliveries will continue in Romeral and Guayac\u00e1n, followed by the Huasco and Copiap\u00f3 valleys. As part of its commitment to a different kind of mining\u2014sustainable with the territory, the environment, and local communities\u2014Compa\u00f1\u00eda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hitos","category-territorio"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\u201cThis benefit is very important for us, not only because of the material itself, but especially because of the recycling. Helping us make all of this sustainable is an excellent idea from CMP. We work with loom weaving, cross-stitch, knitting, and crochet, so this is a huge contribution for us as an organization.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are grateful to CMP for including us. We had just joined the working group in March, and we were one of the first groups to request these yarn balls,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n