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The prize of € 1,500 will help them to continue developing new actions within their project, which works on energy efficiency, sustainability, the design of objects and technical systems in a way that is close to the business world and society and respecting the environment
The Chief Executive Officer of the Municipal Company Limusa, Juan Francisco Martínez, and the management technician of the Ecovidrio lift zone, Manuel Sala, met this morning at first hand the project "Tecnoecólatras del Arcas ¡A por las recreo!", winner of the campaign "The Region of the Ecólatras" - which sought citizen initiatives environmentally responsible in the Region of Murcia.
Juan Francisco Martínez pointed out that "the project, which has received from Ecovidrio the € 1,500 prize to continue developing new actions, works on energy efficiency, sustainability, the design of objects and technical systems in a way that is close to the business world and to society and respecting the environment, being fully integrated in the Curriculum of the subject of Technology in 4th ESO of IES Ramón Arcas Meca ".
The CEO of Limusa stressed that "a group of students of 4th ESO with their technology teacher have made a demonstration of the actions carried out, among which the design of a better layout of spaces in the area stand out of recreation, taking into account the users, sustainability of them, and improvement of the quality in their use, programs to reduce the production of waste, proposals for design and manufacture of breakfast wraps to be reusable and respectful of the environment, encouraging healthy food, and zero waste, vigilance and efficiency of the use of basic elements such as water, electricity and furniture, creation of a maintenance network of spaces, etc ".
The project "Tecnoecólatras del arcas ¡Por por recess!"
has obtained the best evaluation among the 26 participants in the campaign The Ecollators' Region, according to the criteria of the bases in which the highest number of votes obtained in the web www.ecolatras.com was scored, its active diffusion in media online, and the realization of actions to promote the campaign.
All participating initiatives can be consulted on the www.ecolatras.es platform, where topics related to the care of the environment are dealt with, such as the cleaning of fields, the use of sustainable transport alternatives such as cycling or the promotion of fashion called ' Slowfashion 'with recycled material.
Glass recycling data in Lorca
This campaign will serve to continue raising the kilograms of waste of glass containers deposited in Lorca's containers.
The collection of glass from this campaign will be added to the balance of the latest collection data, which indicate that a total of 1,304,760 kilograms of glass containers have been recycled in 2017, which means that each neighbor recycled an average of 14.1 kilograms of this material.
Regarding the rate of containerization, Lorca is located with an average of 174 inhabitants per container, currently having a total of 530 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.
* Note: participants from the municipality of Lorca: Biciamigos, IES Ramón Arcas, Bosqueo2, San Francisco de Asís School, Colegio Virgen de las Huertas.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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