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262 Olga Marina Montes and Vasile V. Merticaru
According to the Spanish Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine
Environment, each year in Spain approximately 592 kilograms of waste per
inhabitant and per year, [2], is produced. Much of this waste ends up in
landfills, occupying large areas of land and necessary addition to avoid soil
contaminating.
At the present time, in Spain there are a total of 15 plants dedicated to the
glass recycling and in the region of “Castilla y León” there exist only one other
glass recycling plant.
Since the entry into force of the Packaging Act in 1998, all containers are
required to fund and implement a collection system being outlook openrecycling
of packaging they put on the market. This legal obligation can be met
in two ways:
• Individually, by a deposit-refund.
• Collectively, through an integrated management system.
In this context and in order to provide an effective and economical solution
to all employers who package their products mostly in glass, Ecovidrio, [2],
arose as a nonprofit association whose main objective is to ensure the
traceability of glass packaging. In this way, every packaging that enters in the
recycling chain follows the appropriate process to become a completely new
one. Being the only integrated management system that specializes in glass, is
able to reduce costs and provide better service to all companies, large or small.
The 2008 financial year ended with 2455 companies adhered to Ecovidrio, with
107 more than in 2007, to contribute to sustainable development and
environmental care.
In Fig.3 and Fig. 4 there are summarized the most important data on glass
recycling in Spain from 2001 until 2008 [2].
Fig. 3 – Statistic data on glass recycling in Spain from 2001 until 2008 [2].