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This initiative is included in the campaign organized by the municipality and the company Ecovidrio nonprofit, which in a first phase to carry out surveys of local establishments to inform and identify their needs
Councillors Infrastructure, Francisco Espejo, and Environment, Palazón Carolina, today launched the campaign that the City and the nonprofit company Ecovidrio, put in place to promote glass recycling in the hospitality industry, introduced to the who also attended Catalan Roberto Fuentes, area manager of that company.
As pointed Palazón Carolina, although the campaign is focused on catering sector, we also return to influence the work they do citizens, very important task for recycling.
In this issue also emphasized Francisco Espejo, ensuring that against what some people think, what separates home stays separate factions of waste being recycled, do not mix in the plants, which should be continue recycling from home.
The City Council initiative and Ecovidrio, which are also involved Hostecar, Lhicarsa and the Federation of Neighborhood Associations, starts this December with a first phase of field work in which conduct surveys to all local places city ​​center, which aim to inform about the campaign, and identify the needs of hoteliers to facilitate the recycling of glass containers.
Early next year, ahead of Easter, the polls will be moved to the Cape Palos.
The local campaigners who previously requested, provide, free of charge, a wheel hub with high capacity for transporting waste glass container to container.
The manager Ecovidrio illustrated presentation of the campaign with glass recycling data in Cartagena in 2011, amounting to a total of 2,520,980 kilos, which means that each neighbor of Cartagena recycled an average of 11.8 kilograms .
Thus, it has been of 1,677 tons in 2005 to 2,500 tons in 2011, with 2008 the year when more was recycled, suffering in the years following a slight decline marked by reduced consumption due to the crisis.
This glass leads directly to a plant in Caudete (Albacete), where a container factory.
HORECA, a key sector
HORECA sector is essential to increase the pounds of glass packaging containers deposited in Spanish, as the hospitality consumes 48% of glass containers. For this reason, it is important to inform the caterers of the importance of proper separation of glass containers in origin.
In the municipality of Cartagena are about 350 establishments which will take up the glass recycling campaign.
Glass containers located in the streets, only serve to collect glass containers: bottles, jars and bottles consumed in the sector and households.
Other materials, such as ceramic or other glass (plates, glasses, window glasses, etc..), That having a composition different from that of glass containers, must be deposited at the collection points towns and cities.
WITHOUT RECYCLING Ã-profit
Ecovidrio is a non-profit organization responsible for managing the recycling of packaging waste in glass containers in Spain, managing the collection of these containers by container facility to facilitate the cooperation of citizens and ensuring recycling.
In addition, public awareness campaigns and promotes prevention by encouraging the reduction of the volume of waste generated.
Remember that 100% of the glass deposited in the containers is recycled and used to produce new glass containers, achieving many environmental benefits.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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