28 Feb, 2021 @ 13:38
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Down in the dumps: Spain ignoring recycling targets

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SPAIN has been ignoring critical European-wide waste recycling targets.

The country has not just been missing a 50% recycling (or re-use) target set by the EU, but the situation is getting worse.

An alliance of 16 environmental organisations have filed a complaint with the European Commission (EC) demanding the government is forced to act.

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The complaint, which has been accepted by the EC, is a ‘historic milestone and is motivated by years of erratic policies, stagnant collection and recycling rates.

The country is ‘totally disinterested in promoting prevention and reuse,’ according to green group Ecologistas en Accion.

According to the latest data from Spain’s Ministry for Ecological Transition, the recycling rate for municipal waste in Spain stood at just 35% in 2018. 

It is expected to be lower for 2019 and 2020.

“Not only has this insufficient figure worsened in recent years, but Spain has not implemented any of the policies that the Commission has been recommending in recent years to reach the 50% target by 2020,” said a spokesman for Ecologistas.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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