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The Spanish city councils engage with the recycling ‘made in Europe'

11/06/2013

11 June 2013

The commitment of the City council of Fuenlabrada and of the Mancomunidad of Municipalities of the Western Costa del Sol are two good examples that the recent modification of the Law of Spanish waste, that promotes the recycling ‘made in Europe', begins to give his fruit.

The City council of Fuenlabrada has approved unanimously a proposal in which it engages with the recycling ‘made in Europe', so that all the paper and the cardboard that collect in the city was recycled in factories papeleras Spanish or European.

By his part, the Mancomunidad of Municipalities of the Western Costa del Sol has entered in the new agreement of collected selective of paper and cardboard, with pioneering character, the obligation that the company dealer deliver the waste of paper and cardboard collected to a factory of paper situated in the European and present Union the justificantes of delivery to check the trazabilidad of the residue. The Mancomunidad groups to eleven city councils of the Costa del Sol, between which find Marbella, Torremolinos, Fuengirola, Benalmádena, Mijas, Estepona…

The possibility to prioritise the recycling inside the European Union, collected for the first time in the Spanish legislation for the city councils with the Law of waste of 2011, and in November of 2012, entered in said law a modification that expands to all the producers or initial possessors of recyclable waste this possibility to bet by the recycling ‘made in Europe'.

Now, in Spain, a big surface of distribution, a bank, a chain hotelera, a company of services, a city council… can demand legally that the final recycling of his waste realise in factories papeleras European. This legislative novelty armours the recycling ‘made in Europe' and gives to the Spanish generators of waste the capacity to decide on the final destination of his waste.

With the development of the European society of the recycling, through initiatives of this type, the EU estimates that they would create in Europe more than 400.000 places of work of here to 2020.

Six good reasons to prioritise the final recycling of the waste inside the European Union:

1.- Improve the industry recicladora European.

2.- Creation of green employment in Europe.

3.- Reduction of the broadcasts associated to the transport of the waste.

4.- Guarantee that the recycling fulfils the exigencias environingingmental European.

5.- reación Of wealth there where has done the effort and the investments to recover the waste.

6.- Greater transparency and control in the process of recycling, that redundará in a greater confidence of the consumer.