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Reciclaje de residuos de envases: un impulso a la economía circular en la Península Ibérica

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Summary:This work fits into a Circular Economy context, as it aims to show the evolution of packaging waste recycling, which, according to EUROSTAT (Statistical Service of the European Union), can include wasted material that was used for containment, protection, handling, delivery and presentation of goods, from raw materials to processed products, from the producer to the user or consumer, excluding production waste. Therefore, based on data published by PORDATA (Database on contemporary Portugal and Europe) and INE (National Institute of Statistics), the amount of waste produced in the European Union per capita is high and has increased in recent years, but not in the same way for all member states, and there are even some, where there is a decrease compared to the European average. There are also differences in the way waste produced by each member state is managed and in meeting proposed community targets for recycling. In this sense, and as this is the first phase of exploratory work, with reference to the 2030 Agenda and respective SDGs, the study is based on the analysis of packaging waste produced and recycled in Portugal and Spain, since 1998, with the aim of complementing later with the enlargement to other member states of the European Union. At this stage, the study concluded that more is recycled in Spain than in Portugal and that as of 2011 the recycling rate is even higher than the average for European Union member states.
Main Authors:Praça, Lídia Galvão
Subject:Spain Portugal Collection Selective Sustainability
Year:2024
Country:Portugal
Document type:article
Access type:open access
Associated institution:Universidade Politécnica de Bragança
Language:Spanish
Origin:Biblioteca Digital da UPB

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