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The contest, of biennial periodicity, opens its doors from 10 to 13 June at Ifema, Feria de Madrid

TEM Tecma 2008, latest in urban planning and environment

Drafting Interempresas15/05/2008

May 15, 2008

The 14th edition of Tem Tecma, international fair of urban planning and the environment, will become the showcase of the latest developments in the sector, who may meet between 10 and 13 June in Madrid fair. The event, organised by Ifema, is confirmed as one of the most qualified for the presentation of the latest developments in the sector, both in equipment and solutions for the treatment and recovery of waste.

Recycled household waste collected without separating only 9.8%, while that of the separate gets recycled 63.1%.

The pageant, held every two years in even-numbered years, will meet at Ifema industry as a whole the urbanism and the environment, articulated around urban infrastructure sectors; urbanization road; parks and gardens; sporting and leisure; urban services; equipment and applications for the Elimination of architectural barriers; rehabilitation, maintenance and ornamentation; water treatment; solid waste; other contamination; protection and recovery of natural environments, and institutions, associations and services.

The offer of the manufacturers and marketers of these products, equipment and techniques for municipal and environmental facilities, offer a comprehensive and innovative view of this economic segment. An offer targeted a group of professionals integrated by representatives of the various administrations, engineering and consulting companies, laboratories and research centers, builders and developers, among others.

A long distance contest

The innovative offer, as well as the intense program of activities that takes place in parallel with the exhibition, have been consolidated throughout his career to Tem Tecma 2008 as the largest trade fair Spanish industrial related to urbanism and the environmenttwo increasingly interrelated sectors.

The best proof of this fact are the results of its previous edition, held in June 2006, which registered a record of participation, with 330 direct exhibitors and 640 participating companies; a net exhibition area of 20.458 square meters, and a total turnout of 9.987 visitors. Particularly noteworthy was the foreign participation, with 28 exhibitors from 17 countries, foreign, and 685 visitors foreign, originally from 34 Nations. Some data come to reaffirm the international projection of Tem Tecma.

Each Spanish generates, year, 524 kg of municipal waste, figure which increases 6% per year

TEM Tecma hosts the first Hall of the recovery and recycling, SRR

In Spain generated 524,5 kg of municipal waste per capita, below the average of the countries of the European Union, which reaches the 567 kilograms per capita, according to the latest survey of environmental indicators of the Ministry of the environmentMAP. In this way, during 2007 it is estimated that the nearly 45 million Spaniards generated 24,75 million of municipal waste.

Despite the implementation of the principles of reduction, reuse and recycling (the three RS), the urban waste continue to increase 6 percent a year, an issue that is of particular concern in this sector, which will meet in the first Hall of the recovery and recyclingSRR, within the framework of Tem Tecma 2008.

Means waste generated in private homes, shops, offices and services, as well as all those who do not have the qualification of dangerous and which by its nature and composition can be assimilated to those produced in the previous places or activities.

Currently, the amount of waste attributable to each household is closely linked to the system of production, economic growth and consumption patterns. According to the latest environmental indicators of the Ministry of the environment, the autonomous communities which recorded a greater value per capita of urban waste were Ceuta and Melilla with an indicator of 2.30 followed by Canaries (2.23) and Balearic Islands (2.02). At the other end, which generates less waste is Galicia (1.05), followed by Castile and León, with a (1.08).

In 2012 Spain will increase 25 percent battery collection

With the entry into force of the 'Royal Decree on batteries and accumulators and their waste environmental management', it is expected that in 2012, Spain reached 25 percent in battery collection, a figure much higher than the data provided by the Spanish Association of pickers of batteriesstorage batteries and cell phones, Aerpam: only 8 percent of all the collected is recycled, amounting to 1.2 per cent of the annual consumption of batteries is recycled.

And to promote initiatives in this sector, Tem Tecma hosts within the Hall of the recovery and recycling, the third edition of the "stack Award", granted by the Aerpam Association to institutions with enhanced capacity of collecting batteries in all Spain.

The number of batteries in Spain consumption stands at more than billion units per year, of which, reflected today only 15 percent of the batteries, accumulators and mobile that are discarded.

So far, Spain lacked a legal framework dealing with the implementation of a system of recycling of batteries by the domestic industry, but in September will enter into force the ' Royal Decree 106/2008 on batteries and accumulators, and the environmental management of their waste ', so Spain binds to the 6 countries of the European Union, which already had legislation in this field: Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Netherlands and Sweden.

The law stipulates that the manufacturers and distributors of batteries will have to be responsible for the costs that involves the installation of containers for the collection, as well as cleaning, maintenance and final management of batteries. In addition, they must address environmental campaigns. And every producer shall be obliged to take care of the collection and management of the same quantity, by weight, and type of batteries, accumulators and batteries used that has been placed on the market, anyone who has been the form of marketing, either directlyElectronics, by mail or automatic.