The deadline to vote the initiatives registered in www.ecolatras.es that bet for the care of the environment opens
Among all the initiatives voted, one of them will receive a € 1,500 prize to make their cause bigger.
Torre Pacheco leads the initiatives in "La Región de los Ecólatras", with a total of 10.
The Mayor of Torre Pacheco, Antonio León, the Councilor of Services and Public Road of the City Council of Torre Pacheco, María del Carmen Guillén, and Roberto Fuentes, Zone Manager of Ecovidrio, presented this morning the second phase of this campaign in Torre Pacheco.
An act in which they have also been present, the Councilor for Education, Youth and Employment, Conchi Martinez and the Councilor for Celebrations and Volunteering, Yolanda Castaño.
Ecovidrio, a non-profit entity in charge of managing the recycling of glass containers in Spain and the Region of Murcia, through the General Directorate of Environment and Mar Menor, is launching the second phase of the "The Region" campaign of the Ecólatras ".
The first phase of this campaign, developed in October, has been to promote the participation of associations, institutions or people, who could present their initiative or sustainable project on the website www.ecolatras.es.
In this second phase, the vote and citizen participation are promoted.
From today, anyone can register as Ecólatra on the aforementioned website and vote by likes within the section "The Region of the Ecólatras" the initiative that considers that it must win the prize of € 1500.
In addition, among all the people who register to support, share or disseminate an initiative, 5 exclusive miniglús will be drawn with the image of "The Region of the Ecólatras".
The participating initiatives of the municipality of Torre Pacheco:
From the garden to the school;
Foodtopia;
Cicloturista brand;
Seminar on Information, awareness and cleanliness of Cabezo Gordo;
Waste collection;
Ecotorrepacheco;
Triky Plastiminion of CEIP Rosario Pacheco;
Green patrol of CBM El Alba de Roldán;
For a better planet of the CEIP Hernández Ardieta and Creation of a bicycle bank of the IES Gerardo Molina.
The campaign will be present at Torre Pacheco, from November 26 to December 2, two eclolators will be next to the igloos that carry the image of the campaign promoting the votes among the passers-by, encouraging all the people to participate in the Region of the Ecólatras.
With this new concept, Ecovidrio and the Region of Murcia bet, not only to emphasize the importance of recycling glass containers, but to defend values ​​and interests of environmental protection and the environment that surrounds us.
Glass recycling data in Torre Pacheco
This campaign will serve to continue raising the kilograms of waste of glass containers deposited in the containers of Torre Pacheco.
The collection of glass from this campaign will be added to the balance of the latest collection data, which indicate that a total of 405,200 kilograms of glass containers have been recycled in 2017, which means that each neighbor recycled an average of 11.5 kilograms of glass. this material.
Regarding the containerization rate, Torre Pacheco is located with an average of 203 inhabitants per container, currently having a total of 173 igloos for glass packaging waste installed throughout the municipality.
20 years recycling glass containers
The origins of the recycling of glass containers date back to the 80s with the arrival of the first containers in Madrid and Barcelona in 1982. After the approval of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Law in 1997 and the start of operations in 1998, Ecovidrio became the managing entity of a recycling model that guarantees a public, professional service and to which all citizens have access.
The recycling of glass containers is a fundamental element to contribute to sustainable development in accordance with the principles of circular economy.
During the last two decades the recycling rate of glass containers has experienced an exponential growth going from 31.3% in 2000 to 73% in 2017, a rate estimated by Ecovidrio according to the current calculation method.
In these 20 years of public-private collaboration, the kilogram per inhabitant of packaging waste collected in Spain has increased by 156%, going from about 6.6 kilograms per person in 1998 to almost 17 kilograms with which we have in the present.
The commitment to collaboration with the hospitality industry has allowed that in these 20 years 61% of the establishments of our country collaborate with Ecovidrio in training actions to promote the recycling of glass containers between the hotel trade.
Ecovidrio is the non-profit organization in charge of the management of the recycling of glass packaging waste in Spain.
8,000 packaging companies make it possible, with their contribution through the green dot, the recycling system.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco