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Success of the campaign "100% glass', organized by the Department of Public Works and Ecovidrio between catering establishments in the municipality.
Since it was set up last December 7, this initiative has made the 188 participating restaurants and bars recycled 59,000 kilograms of waste glass containers, representing about 1,500 kilograms a day.
Councilman Works, Roque Ortiz, and area manager Ecovidrio, Roberto Fuentes, have delivered this morning prize for conducting an advertising campaign worth 3.000 euros to the restaurant Aquarium for exemplary environmental performance during the initiative ' 100% glass'.
Second place was Pepita Thumbelina and third placed Fictions.
In addition to the amount of recycled glass it has property valued involvement in the campaign and spreading that have made it on social networks.
So Aquarium restaurant has had a collection volume for the duration of the campaign of 544.5 kilograms.
This contest was created as a dynamic complement to the collection campaign 'door to door' created by Ecovidrio in collaboration with the city of Murcia.
With these actions, the non-profit organization aims to promote the recycling of glass in the hospitality channel, because in Spain it generates 50% of waste glass container for single use that are sold on the market.
With this initiative, not only will give a totally new service in the Region of Murcia, but also a direct impact on improving recycling figures Murcia city.
In addition, we have initiated actions such as the distribution of cubes of different sizes, depending on the space and facilities needs.
These buckets facilitate transport and emptying waste glass containers staff will go through them.
Therefore, and since last December, Murcia restaurateurs in the area of ​​the Cathedral, Plaza Mayor, Plaza de las Flores Plaza de Santo Domingo, Plaza Santa Ana, Plaza Universidad, the Risen Christ Square, Plaza Santa Eulalia, Plaza Cristo Rescue, Plaza San Juan, Plaza Europa and street Bartolome Perez Casas, have a service 'door to door' for the selective collection of glass generated in each of the establishments.
This collection system has been activated in areas which by its location and difficult access prevents installing close containers in order to facilitate the work of recycling.
According to the latest data from 2014, Murcia recycled a total of 6,584,150 kilograms of glass containers, which means that each neighbor recycled an average of 15 kilograms of this material, slightly above the national average is 14, 8 kg per
Regarding the rate of containers, Murcia is an average of 325 inhabitants per container, and at present a total of 1,351 containers for waste glass containers installed in the town.
Ecovidrio ensures that 100% of the glass that is recovered in the container is recycled to manufacture new glass containers and achieve multiple benefits for the environment and society.
With as simple as separating bottles, bottles, jars and flasks used to deposit them in the containers after gesture, power consumption is reduced, raw materials are saved and landfills and reduce air pollution.
Other materials such as ceramics or other glass (plates, glasses, window glasses, etc.), who have a different composition to the glass containers must be deposited in containers of municipal solid waste or ecoparks.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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