EPS, union of the energetic saving and the efficient gestión of the residue

Anape is the association that groups to the Spanish industry of the Poliestireno Expanded (EPS). His main aim consists in serving of representation of the sector in front of the diverse interlocutor, contribute to the users of products of poliestireno expanded all the information that sue on this material and boost the development of activities that improve his knowledge and utilisation.

In the actuality an appearance that necessarily have to incorporate all the products is the analysis and establishment of initiatives that promote the recycling of waste and the reuse at the end of his useful life. With this type of measures, achieve minimise the impacts to the surroundings thanks to a committed industry, that puts the means to attain a correct gestión of the waste of the product.

The EPS characterises for being a material 100% recyclable. If to this add him the resources that has had the industry to boost a suitable gestión of the waste, do that this material situate like an useful tool for the protection of the environingingment, to the pair that guarantees an efficient use of the resources thanks to his high insulating capacity.

To domestic level the poliestireno expanded manages through the destined yellow containers to the plastic. Also it can be delivered in the clean points or centres of collected suited with distinct public and mercantile organisations to realise the gather of this material.

To favour the correct gestión, treatment and recycled of the waste of packs and packaging and the generated by the sector of the construction and rehabilitation of buildings constituted in the year 2000 the centres ECHO-EPS. His mechanism of operation bases in that when it has generated a sufficient quantity of waste, these move to the Centres, where are valorizados, managed and treaties under the supervision of Anape.

These Centres are skilled companies in the recycled of poliestireno expanded that split of transformative companies of this material, what supposes a high synergy since one of the options of recycled when the waste are sufficiently clean consists in entering them again in the process of manufacture of the EPS.

These centres of recycled constitute of compliance to the had to the legislation established in environingingmental matter and of gestión of waste. In addition to his paper of companies recicladoras also act giving a service of storage and transport of the waste in the points where these originate and concentrate.

At present Anape has six centres of recycled devoted to the gestión and recycled of waste of poliestireno expanded. These centres are established in distinct points of the Spanish geography like Andalucia, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Galicia and Madrid and form part of the Project ECHO EPS to collect, reutilizar and recycle the EPS post consumption. In this Project of Anape also collaborate Cicloplast, entity constituted for the suitable gestión of the plastic waste and, through an agreement of collaboration, Ecoembes, entity devoted to the gestión of waste of packs and packaging.

The process of reincorporación of the EPS recovered to the again material manufacture is very simple: by means of a process of triturado, is possible reintroducir the EPS in the process productive and obtain like this new material with almost identical provision that the obtained of prime matter virgin. When the excess material can not be recycled in the own process can opt by the energetic recovery, thanks to his high can calorífico, in suitable installations for this.

Anape Follows working by the recycled promoting and supervising the centres ECHO-EPS. The Association and all the industry of the poliestireno work actively to expand the network of centres and increase like this the figures of recycled of EPS.