Free trade area of recycling material doesn´t increase CO2 because global environmental profits of waste exceed transport related emissions. Also, they guarantee the maximum use of the waste as a new resource and this is basic for the implementation of circular economy. As the conference of the European Commission states in “A Europe that uses efficiently resources”, each year UE removes recycling wastes as paper, glass, plastic, aluminum and steel. If these wastes were recycled, it could save millions of tones of CO2 emissions. They say that towns should manage better their waste because it can avoid a considerable amount of greenhouse effect saving. In the process of recycling, 500.000 jobs will be created. At the same time, recycling waste has become essential with the increasing row material demand in the East and Asia market. In this context, global demand is driving the transformation of the European recycling sector by technology change. They have moved from domestic market to international… read more →
