Photo: group visits Germany, Members of parliament, managers of the logistical system of the SDDR in Germany, Returns and Gremi.
In this trip could ascertain in situ the genialidad of the system of recycled German, in which they coexist the system of collected separated by containers and the system of deposit return and return.
The system of collected separate is known by all as collected selective and thanks to the work of the administration for the awareness of the population Spain advances in the correct direction.
In this trip have been able to observe the evolution of the system, adding a method, to our opinion that compete the current and adds a palpable improvement in the quantity and quality of the materials recovered.
Photo: sample of the final product obtained with the SDDR, PET transparent.
The system of German deposit, is a perfect gear in which all container of drink, excepting juices and dairy, is give to the once used system.
This attains by means of a deposit that is quantified by the producers, that goes of 8 to 15 cents for the reusable containers and 25 cents for the ones of an alone use.
The consumer, contributes said quantity, which is him give in the moment that returns the container in any point of sale.
Photo: it labels tin coca tail Zero, amount of the content: €1,09, container retornable: €0,25
They count us the experts that like all the systems, the implantation a priori was questioned by the producers of drinks and the big distribution but to measure that understood the trazabilidad, the quantity and the quality of the recycled, of the system went doing popular.
The small trade received the implantation of the system with distrust, but achieved to add to the cart understanding the deposit, like an opportunity of business and loyalty, the containers spent to be a mere container that the consumer perceive like a residue, to be prime matter for new bottles.
In Germany the reusable containers did not bequeath to disappear per with the increase imparable of the containers of an alone use and like consequence of the grown exponential of the Littering (containers launched to the half natural like rubbish) the German administration implanted the SDDR.
At the beginning it had the support of environmentalists, agents of waste (by not being imposed) and the rejection of the distribution and the envasadoras.
At present it coexists simultaneously the systems of collected manual and automatic.
Photo: Woman using SDDR
Photo: it schemes SDDR open, containers of an alone use.
Photo: reusable containers schemes of SDDR, left lateral separation of schemes it.
The system differentiates clearly among reusable and recyclable containers. It calls the attention that what we understand by reusable, bottles of glass, that wash and go back to be containers of liquids, in Germany also these are of PET. A plastic but thickness, that can be reutilizado until 15 times. The glass has a longer life, of until 40 uses.
The recyclable containers by against, are bottles of an alone use, but no thus they end up his life like material; these process to obtain some copos of plastics that return the material to the life in shape of new bottles, tins of tins used and of equal way with the glass.
Resumiendo, the system has worked without interruption give of the 2003 and, in spite of the political alternation, anybody poses his modification; anyway, his enlargement to other containers.
The percentages of recovery are next to 100% and the quality obtained allows the manufacture of containers recycled again.
Photo: bullet of PET
The distribution (big, average and small) at present is clearly in favour because it generates them a line of extra business, the containers of liquids.
The system has perceived by the citizenship like an advance in the reduction of the ecological footprint of an increasing consumption.
The containers have disappeared of streets and dumps. With more than 10 years of operation, the SDDR, to surpassed the most optimistic forecasts in generation of business, investment and creation of use.
Because we feel the passion for recycling, because the recycling evolves, from the Gremi lean the convivencia of the containers and the system of return, deposit and return.
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