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| According to data published by Ecovidrio, during 2019 Murcia was among the top ten Spanish province capitals that increased its selective collection figures the most | The Department of Sustainable Mobility and Youth, through the Street Cleaning Service, has reactivated the door-to-door collection service available to hotel establishments, which was interrupted by the total cessation of their activity during confinement.Nearly 200 establishments in areas such as the Cathedral, Plaza Mayor, de las Flores, Santo Domingo and Cristo del Rescate are currently attached to this service; Europa and Bartolomé Pérez Casas streets; and other enclaves, such as the Santa Eulalia neighborhood and the outskirts of the La Merced university campus.This service has an impact on improving neighborhood rest and street cleaning, since it avoids the noise of emptying glass containers and dirt on the streets caused by dripping bottles, improves recycling and prevents containers from Glass is filled with glass from hotel establishments.Councilor Rebeca Pérez has indicated that "we have maintained in this period the collection of the more than 1,385 glass containers that the municipality of Murcia has, guaranteeing the correct chain of glass recycling to citizens.

Now we reactivate the collection service door to door to provide all establishments with the deposit of glass containers generated by their activity.

There is a clear commitment on the part of citizens, which has ensured that glass recycling is not affected by the health crisis, which is why I know that the habit is consolidated "Murcia, among the ten provincial capitals that recycle the mostThe green container underwent a change in its warehouse marked by the cessation of commercial and hospitality activity in the months of confinement.Last 2019, the deposit of these containers, adding what was contributed in the selective glass collection containers, together with the door-to-door collection of hotels, was 7,576,969 kilos.If in 2018 there were 6,706,240 kilograms, the increase between these contiguous years is almost 13%.According to data published by Ecovidrio, during 2019 Murcia capital with this increase is among the top ten Spanish province capitals that increased their selective collection figures the most.This current year, the data reveals that in January 710,530 kilos were collected, and in January 2019, 672,810.

As can be seen, 2020 began with an increase in the collection data of 5.61%, which is more accentuated in February: 606,860 kilos in 2020, and 505,590 kilos in 2019, an increase of 20.03%.With the beginning of the alarm state, the trend varies: comparing data from the month of March of both years, in 2019, 624,440 kilos were collected, and in 2020, 643,780 kilos (3.10%).

In April, remembering that last year the city was at Easter and Spring Festival, 684,700 kilos of glass containers were removed.

And April this year, in the midst of a health crisis, were 607,380 (-11.29%).From Ecovidrio, a non-profit company, in charge of the integrated management system for this waste, point out that the recycling of glass packaging waste is a fundamental tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the overexploitation of resources.In fact, in 2019 the recycling of glass containers has avoided the emission of 519,941 tons of CO2 equivalent, an amount comparable to traveling by plane more than 310,000 times the distance between Spain and the United States.Rebeca Pérez recalls that the municipality of Murcia last February won the Glass Recycling Challenge against other municipalities in the Region of Murcia.With the glass collected, the exterior track of the Pabellón Príncipe de Asturias in Murcia was reformed, which became the first sports surface in the Region made with a resin finish composed of glass from recycling."This challenge was a real impetus to continue encouraging the population since our objective is to achieve 100% of the recycling rate as one of the pillars of the conservation of our environment.

And it is that this gesture allows obtaining great environmental benefits, such as reducing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, avoiding the extraction of raw materials from our planet.

We will continue working on this upward trend to ensure that citizens and hoteliers continue recycling until we reach 100%, "Pérez concluded.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia