Spanish Packaging Waste Recycling (I)

The key year of 2000 was the year that laid the foundation for the Spanish recycling group company. In this year, this non-profit company successfully obtained more relevant companies to participate in it. By the end of the year, its member units had reached 11,178. Because of this, the recycling company recovered 1.578 million tons of packaging waste this year. Due to the continuous increase of member units, Spanish recycling companies have ranked third in Europe. In 2001, the company’s membership increased to 11,750. According to different industries, the company's member units are distributed as: 48% from the food industry, 9% from the cleansing industry, 6% from the beverage industry, 4% from the health and beauty industry, and 33% from other industries. From the perspective of the geographical distribution of member units, all regions in Spain participate without exception. At the same time, 79 agreements were signed with local governments in various regions, 67 for cooperation agreements and 12 for framework agreements.
User-friendly simplification of procedures To attract more companies to participate, the Spanish recycling company makes every effort to provide convenient services to its member companies. For example, the company continues to simplify its reporting procedures. For enterprises that have less than 8 tons of packaging materials per year, they only need to fill out a declaration form every year. You can. In order to further simplify the procedures, the company has newly added equipment and compiled a special level. The member units can get a report CD containing accurate data for the current year and expected data for the next year. Compared with the floppy disks used in the past, it is not only convenient for the installation of programs. , And can automatically fill in the report based on previous years' data, and give the settlement fee of the year. Another result of this new device was to change the original manual declaration to automatic declaration. As a result, only 30% of manual filings were dropped to 8% of 2001 in 1999, and the members who use CD-ROM auto-declaration are also original. 54% increase to the current 57%.
Another procedure for a recycling company is to sign an agreement with a small retailer to fulfill the legal responsibility for recycling packaging waste. The agreement was divided into five forms. As a result, 10,000 small companies joined the recycling company through their representatives. At the same time, the company’s website has also played an important role. It not only provides relevant information, but also can easily download document data. As of the end of last year, the average monthly number of clicks on the site exceeded 3,000 and more than 1,000 files were downloaded. Another important function of the website is its interaction. It can guide its member units online to formulate their implementation plans for completing the recycling goals.
The “Green Point” cost has stabilized since 1999. The charging standards for various materials in 2001 have not changed substantially. The only exception is that paper and board materials have increased slightly due to the increase in recycling costs.
Extensive Participation Because the recycling company has a large number of member units, its focus is on providing information so as to promote maximum public participation. In 2000, in addition to maintaining exchanges with existing work partners, the company further expanded the scope of publicity in related fields, promoted the public’s awareness of waste recycling through education, launch, and publicity to maximize the public’s efforts. The extensive participation of the results, in turn, has led to a significant reduction in recycling costs.
In the past few years, the company’s publicity activities have achieved great successes and enabled more citizens to recognize the importance of waste classification. This is a prerequisite for waste classification. The campaign slogan is: "Recycling is everyone's responsibility. Success depends on your classification." There is no doubt that the publicity campaigns have achieved great success in all regions, which has increased the extensiveness of public participation and the amount of waste recycling, and has also prompted more local governments to participate. (To be continued)