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Are exceeded the 5 million t of paper recovered and recycled in 2008

13/01/2009

January 13, 2009

If in 2005 was exceeded for the first time in Spain the barrier of 4 million tons of paper recovered and recycled, in 2008 just ended exceeded the barrier of 5 million, with an estimated growth of 2 percent compared with 2007.

According to the Manufacturers Association, pulp, paper and cardboard (Aspapel), 5 million tons of paper and cardboard used recovered, whose in 2008 represent savings of volume in landfill equivalent to 50 large full football as the Bernabeu or Camp Nou stadiums up top and a saving of landfill emissions 4.5 million tonnes of CO₂, more than 1 per cent of the total emissions resulting in the country. The Spanish paper industry ensures the recycling of all the paper that comes out in Spain and encourages citizens to continue to work with municipalities and industry, with an effort that gives off: ten years recovering and 43 per cent of the role that was consumed and is currently recovered already used the 69 percent, figures comparable record with countries such as Switzerland, Norway, Germany or Japan.