Volvemos al Sistema de Retorno de Envases?

77% of the container volume of domestic waste are packagings, as we can see in the report of the Waste Prevention and Responsible Consume Foundation. Recycling Union of Catalunya, estimates that hardly half million of beverage packaging tones go to garbage dump or to incinerator, they are materials that can be recycle with a 100 million euro per year of value. Eurostat, European Estadistics Agency, tells that a 15% of the municipal waste comes from recycling in Spain in 2012, we are in the last position of the state members in recycling matters. Return Association asked for Ecoembes and Ecovidrio, (representatives of packer and great distribution and management of the current container system), to implement a Beverage Packaging Return System. This proposal will allow to recover in origin and recycle to make new packaging in more than 90% of the cases. We should revive the costume of return the bottle to the shop we bought. It will get from 51 millions of beverage packaging that we consume, 29 millions go to garbage dump or incinerator. Retorna Associations says that in more than 40 regions in the world, the practice has been already successful. Users leave the packaging used where they bought the new. In this way, experts explain that the packaging becomes a resource. Recycling can get 98,5%, as it happens in Germany, without any extra costs for Administration and furthermore, with savings in Government. We are burying in garbage dump and burning in incinerators, worthy materials, as organic materials basic in our grounds, or packaging metal and plastic that can be reuse and recycle. It is an outrage not to reuse these resources, when we can finish them in the planet. Besides the implementation of the Return System for beverage packaging, users can choose the use of the re-usable packaging. The active of the project, also promote other type of measures as avoiding one-use products, promoting re-use, and select collecting. This system will emerge 500.000 tones per year, they are materials that can be recover with a high quality. Source: Gestores de Residuos