Anape and Ecoembes sign an agreement for the creation of the first centers of EPS waste recovery

Anape, National Association of EPS, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Ecoembes, entity dedicated to the management of packaging and packaging waste for the collection and subsequent recycling of waste expanded polystyrene (EPS). By signing this agreement, both entities will maintain close cooperation for the correct collection, management and treatment of waste expanded polystyrene packaging and be created to this end the new EPS Eco centres. EPS waste be collected at places where focusing the generation of this type of packaging, such as supermarkets, points of distribution of electrical appliances and central markets, among others. Subsequently, this waste will be transferred to the EPS Eco centres, which will be evaluated and managed under the supervision of Anape. Then all the recovered waste will be treated to new uses and applications. The EPS recycled once used for the production of new pieces of EPS and various building materials, such as blocks, light concrete, porous bricks and improvements of soils. Likewise it should be noted that 15% of the recycled material is intended to "unimaginable" such as hangers, video tapes, marcos applications of photographs, etc. Centres Eco EPS that will give service to the metropolitan areas of Madrid and Barcelona will be created in order to implement this scheme of recycling in Spain, in an initial phase of the project in an orderly manner. A second phase of the project, planned opening new points in the main towns of our country. In the words of José María Palacios, President of Anape, "with this agreement, ANAPE and the EPS industry confirm the commitment made with the signing of the international arrangement of recycling, signed by more than 25 countries." "It is the result of the large bet that the sector of the EPS is doing for the protection of the environment".