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La mayoría de los hogares asocia el Punto Verde al recicladoThe majority of households associated with the Green point recycling
Nearly one in every two households (43 percent) know the Green point (do symbol that identifies the different products in containers that are attached to the integrated management system?)(SIG - of Ecoembes). This percentage, the majority of households (70 percent) associated with this symbol to recycling, and aspects related to the same.
The Green point is the symbol that identifies the products from the bottling companies adhering to the integrated system of management (GIS) of Ecoembes and which therefore comply with the packaging Act, which funded the extracoste involving local and regional authorities the introduction of selective with respect to the traditional collection collection of trash.
This symbol, present in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Slovakia, Slovenia, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Sweden, Turkey, is responsible for ensuring that the containers so identified are complying with the obligations as required by law of packaging.
The amount of waste from packaging recovered in 2003 is equivalent to fill more than 82 football as the Bernabéu stadiums
Thanks to the collaboration of all citizens, autonomous regions, municipalities, and businesses, in the past four years and a half we have avoided that nearly of 4 million tonnes of packaging they ended up in the landfill, to have been recovered by the system managed by Ecoembes. According to Melchor Ordóñez, Director General of Ecoembes, "full participation is essential." "If we do not separate packaging in our homes and not put them in the corresponding container, the system is for and packaging waste may not be recycled".
In 2003 the system managed by Ecoembes recovered more than a million tonnes of packaging waste, avoiding so they needlessly ended up in landfills. This amount would be tantamount to fill, up above, 82 football as the Bernabéu stadiums.
Information about Ecoembes
Ecoembes is a corporation non-profit responsible for managing an integrated system of management (GIS), aimed at the selective collection of packaging for their subsequent recovery and recycling. Ecoembes is created in November 1996, in anticipation of law 11/97 of packaging and packaging waste.
11,700 enterprises are attached to the system of Ecoembes and provide the necessary quantities so Ecoembes bear the extracoste resulting from the implementation of selective waste collection on traditional garbage collection to local authorities.
Related Companies or Entities
Ecoembalajes España, S.A.
