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Moreover, the recovery of this material by depositing with Lorca green bell jars, glass bottles and avoid drawn from nature makes 1 million kilos of raw materials for manufacturing and environmental benefits that would be around 600 tonnes of CO2 stop emitting it into the atmosphere.
Councilman Environment of the City of Lorca, Melchor Morales, has reported that "glass recycling in Lorca could lead to the end of this year, a savings equivalent to the consumption of the inhabitants of the city electric power for almost one week. So revealed the annual report published by the SIG Ecovidrio data of material deposited by citizens in the green igloos. Township accumulates in the first seven months of the year the amount of 451,300 kilos of bottles and jars collected from the containers installed in the streets for this purpose. "
In that report, Ecovidrio estimated that during 2013 the Spaniards have saved 1,038,403 megawatt hours through glass containers supplied by the citizens selectively for recycling.
Which is equivalent to the electricity consumption of a million and half people for five months, roughly the population of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia.
His translational lorquino recycling figures for this year are an energy saving close to 1,200 megawatt hour at the end of 2014 to continue the trend for production of glass containers to the appropriate container.
The mayor explained that "these contributions would mean also that due to the small gesture of Lorca by depositing green bell bottles and glass jars will avoid extract from nature 1 million kilos of raw for manufacturing materials. The resulting environmental benefit would be around 600 tonnes of CO2 no longer emit into the atmosphere. "
However, the council has complained that the town continues to offer rates lower than the national average recycling.
While on average every Spanish deposited in the green glass igloo 14.6 kilos, the figure in Lorca stays in just over 9 kilos per person per year.
Yes, the last two years show a slight improvement over the years with the highest incidence of the financial crisis.
It may be recalled that three glass bottles carrying the green container is avoided extracting more than 1 kilo of raw material, reduce by more than one kilo waste going to landfill and save enough energy to put the washing machine 3 times a family average (4 members) or to charge a tablet or smartphone for a year, among other examples.
For these reasons, Melchor Morales has encouraged Lorca to reduce the generation of solid waste while increasing recycling, so that together we improve our environment.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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