Spanish citizens deposit 71.9% of the plastic, paper, cartoon and metal packaging in the yellow

or blue container last year, it meant 1,2 tones of this type of waste. As Ecoembes data show We reach the highest rate in the history and a 1,6% more than 2012. It is confirmed the upward trend in domestic packaging recycling. Since waste management system was implanted, rate experimented improvements year after year. Economy activity that is related to waste, is the responsible of the major part of the green employment and it represents 27% of the jobs that are related to environment in Spain. As last research called “Analysis and prospective- Environmental series ”edited by Agriculture, Food and Environmental Ministry. The study analyses the socioeconomic perspective of the sector. Eurostat data show that each Spanish produced 464 kilograms of waste in 2012, that is 5,6% less than the European average, where citizen generated 492 kilograms person and year. Spanish wasting challenge consist in getting the goals of reuse and recycle stated in the Waste Law of 2011, where it was settled that in 2020, we must get 50% in domestic waste. Otherwise, Ecoembes maintains that we have already got the rate. Other aspect that is mentioned in the research of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Ministry, environmental consciousness is growing recycling importance and waste management. The increment of these topics were in 2011 one out of the five main environmental problems for the 33% of the Europeans, that is nine points more than in 2008. In Spain, rate grow from 7% in 2008 to 21% in 2011. Source: gestores de residuos