This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at Los españoles reciclamos 7 de cada 10 bolsas de papel que utilizamos

The Spanish recycling 7 of every 10 paper bags that we use

15/09/2009

September 15, 2009

In 2008 they recovered, whose 69% of the paper bags that we use, according to data from Aspapelin Spain. Last year the Spanish use 2.080 million of paper bags to protect and carry our purchases, according to data of the Ministry of the environment, and Rural and marine, which means an average of 50 bags per Spanish per yearwhich has just been recovering and recycles 35.

The use of paper bags varies in the different sectors of the distribution, according to the report from Nielsen structure of the sector of the stock exchanges in Spain and perspective of the consumer. 16% Of the total number of bags used in the shops in Spain are paper bags. In the clothing and textile products and clothing stores in general the use of paper bags is majority: 58% of bags that are used in these stores are already paper. On the other hand, in the trade of food the use of paper bags is only 5%, although the paper bag is now used mostly for some food such as bread products.