Santander picked up 32 kilos of paper and paperboard per capita in 2008 for recycling
October 7, 2009
According to the report of this partnership, facilitated to Europa Press, the Cantabrian capital thus occupies the twenty-second placed ranking 'Large municipal separate collection of paper and cardboard cities', which leads San Sebastian with 72 kilos per inhabitant.
This ranking collects data from all types of paper and cardboard recycling through the blue container, the collected door to door and clean points, which as a whole is known as municipal separate collection.
This municipal separate collection should add collection industrial all kinds of paper and cardboard is carried out in companies, publishers and printers and department stores.
Adding both collected in 2008 broke in Spain a new record of recycling of paper, closing the year with a total of 5 million tons of paper recovered and recycled, according to data from Aspapel.
