Portugal: municipal waste recycling of packaging grows 7% in 2013 (with frame)

In 2013, the recycling of household packaging waste, of small trade and HORECA grew 7% â€" that is, despite the reduction of consumption resulting from the current economic climate, the Portuguese remain committed to the separation and recycling of packaging waste.

The company green dot (SPV), sent for recycling, last year, more than 382 thousand tonnes of packaging waste within the urban flow, materials collected mostly selectively through the ecopoints and door-to-door systems.

"Portugal can once again be proud of the results obtained. Year after year, since the beginning of the integrated management system of packaging waste (SIGRE), in 1996, that evolution has been very positive. The maturity and the results achieved are in greater responsibility, by which we remain firmly committed to the development of a recycling society thus contributing to the green economy ", stressed in a statement Luís Veiga Malik, CEO of green dot Corporation.

In the urban stream â€" domestic and small trade and HORECA-plastic and metal stood out with a growth of 27%, taking the paper/paperboard increased 10%. In relation to the glass has a slight decrease ( -2%).

In urban and non-urban flow were forwarded for recycling over 693 thousand tonnes of waste, an increase of 7% compared to 2012.

Crisis does not recycling

Despite the current climate, the company green dot believes that in the next few years the rate of recycling of packaging waste will continue to rise in Portugal, going to meet the goals proposed in the new strategic plan of municipal waste.

It is recalled that, in order to contribute to this objective, the SPV has launched, at the end of last year, the mission a draft Recycle awareness nationwide in more than 200 counties. Coordinated with municipalities and municipal systems, throughout the 2014 action will knock on the door of 2 million homes with the Portuguese mission of converting all those who still do not recycle in total and separators of clarify the rules of recycling all that already do the separation.

Since its inception in 1996, the company green dot have sent for recycling more than six million tonnes of packaging waste, equivalent to the weight of three bridges Vasco da Gama.

2013

2012

108.896

98.948

10%

175.145

178.216

-2%

70.468

55.361

27%

24.416

19.301

27%

3.570

4.625

-23%

382.494

356.451

7%

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