Eco-Rom Ambalaje recycled 2.6 million tonnes of packaging waste in the past decade
Eco-Rom Ambalaje, one of the most important organizations specialised in the assumption of packaging recycling and recovery obligations from economic agents, recycled around 2.6 million tonnes of packaging waste in the last ten years, since the appearance of the first national recycling commitments 2014-08-09 00:33:56 - From the Print Edition
Thus, the organization has contributed to saving 5.2 million tonnes of natural resources, including oil, wood, sand, feldspar, iron ore and bauxite, according to a press release issued to The Diplomat – Bucharest in mid-June this year. "In 2004, we started a very ambitious project for that time: the creation of a separate collection and packaging waste recycling system in Romania," said Sorin Cristian Popescu, general manager of Eco-Rom Ambalaje. "It is based on an effective partnership between the packaged goods industry, sanitation operators, waste collectors, recyclers, local authorities and citizens. Basically, we brought together all important players within the waste management system for a common goal: increasing the amount of waste recycled, so Romania can reach the level of other European countries."
Popescu went on to note that this model has placed the packaging waste management sector as one of the fields where Romania has actually met EU targets y-o-y, reaching a current recycling rate of 55 per cent of all packaging waste placed on the national market. Eco-Rom Ambalaje fulfils 72 per cent of the target, according to the National Agency for Environmental Protection. If in 2006, 14 localities had access to the separate collection system founded by the organisation, today the number has increased more than 33 times, reaching 464 localities. Thus, around 45 per cent of the population - about nine million Romanians - have access to the system. In terms of quantities collected separately from the population, the figures have increased 50 times: from 800 tons in 2006 to about 40,000 tons by the end of 2013. Moreover, through the packaging waste separate collection system and through the investments made in the industry development, Eco-Rom Ambalaje currently supports about 20 per cent of the waste management labour market in Romania, says the GM. "Specifically, Eco-Rom Ambalaje led to the creation of 6,600 jobs in 2011, while in 2012 this number increased by 30 per cent to reach 9,450, according to the latest national statistics," added Popescu. Operational since 2004, when it had 81 companies in its portfolio, Eco-Rom Ambalaje counted at the end of 2013 more than 2,800 members.
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