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More than 300 inmates of detention centres will work on the selective collection of packaging
09/06/2008
June 9, 2008
The Secretary General of penitentiary institutions, Mercedes Gallizo, and the Director-General of Ecoembes, Melchor Ordoñez, have signed an agreement for collaboration in the Madrid Penitentiary Centre IV (Navalcarnero), which aims to encourage the selection and collection of light packaging and paper and cardboard in the penitentiary centers dependent on the General Secretariat.
Thanks to this agreement, around 300 interns may be hired by the autonomous organism of prison work and training for employment and will thus have paid work to participate in the selective collection of waste in the centres.
In total, 120 yellow container for light containers (plastic containers, cans and briks) and more than 40 blue (containers of paper and paperboard) in 67 of the General Secretariat prisons will be installed.
He is expected that, thanks to this project, to recover more than 300 tons of packaging in each Centre during the first year, packaging which, otherwise, would end in landfill sites.
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