1. RECYCLING IN SPAIN

2. RECYCLILNG INFORMATION IN SPAIN
Population with access to selective collection: 47,251,885
Containers selection plants: 96
Recycled tons: 1,195,001
Plastic: 371,218
Metals (steel and aluminium): 261,376
Paper: 557,505
Wood: 4,901
Recycle percentage: 71.9%

3. TYPES OF CONTAINERS BLUE: paper and paperboard GREEN: glass
YELLOW: plastic
ORANGE/BROWN: food rests
SIGRE POINTS: medicines
BATTERY CONTAINERS
RECYCLING CENTRES: dangerous waste

4. DO YOU KNOW THAT…
In Spain only the 35% of aluminium is recycled. If we’d recycle th rest we’d save 12,000,000m3, enough to supply water to the entire country for two days.
With a kilo of crushed glass we save 6 litres of water, 1,2kg of organic material and 20% of energy.
Recycling 1kg of paper we save 98 litres of water.
A battery could contaminate 100litres of water.

5. MATERIALS THAT CAN BE RECYCLED
Paper and paperboard
Metal
Battery
Paints and oils
Glass
Organic matter
Plastic

6. RECYLING CANS

7. RECYCLING IN SPAIN

8. COLLECTING BOTTLE CAPS
In Spain there’s a company (SEUR) that collects bottle caps to help children who need medical treatment.
There are 13 milion people helping to collects these caps, 83children helped, 668,080€ given and 2,864 tones of caps recycled.

9. THE VALENCIAN COMMUNITY
During the 2015 at the Valencian Community were recovered 39,411,119kg of light packaging:
Alicante: 13,268,000
Valencia: 22,305,786
Castellón: 3,836,000

10. RECYCLING PLANTS
There are 52 provinces with recycling plants, and 17,150 companies that work with them.
There are 43 provinces with plastic recycling plants, and 292 companies that work with them.
In 2014 Spain started to have recycling plants to produce recycled material to make food packaging, authorize by the UE.

11. The first country in european recycle is Austria.
SPAIN AND EUROPE
In 2015 Spain recycled 1,2 milion domestic packaging, the 72% of the market packaging.
This made Spain grow in recycling and be one of the firsts countries of european recycle.
The first country in european recycle is Austria.