Salou start a pilot campaign to encourage the separate collection of organics

Salou. Costa Dorada. The Department of Public Health and Environmental Quality of the City of Salou wants to increase levels of recycling in the municipality and if the council recently received an award for the increase in the collection of glass, in the year 2012 be promoted together with the Catalan Waste Campaign Pilot for large producers to raise awareness about the need to further collaborate with the environment. According to the Councillor for Public Health and Environmental Quality, Ramon Pascual, "as the government must find ways to facilitate and encourage our citizens to be environmentally friendly and to encourage recycling as a solution to reduce level waste and also to try to minimize these impacts on our environment, "he said. Pascual, who met with the director of the Catalan Waste, Josep Maria Tost, which have laid the foundations of a dynamic collaboration between the two administrations. First, immediate action will design and set up a pilot campaign among major producers, particularly addressed to apartments, to improve the figures for the separate collection of organic matter on " we find that there is often more than 20% of other materials that do not correspond to the residue and devalues ​​the material waste, "said Pascual. However, the figures are positive, and from January to October 2011 were collected 3955 tonnes representing an increase of 6.23%, thus exceeding the 3 623 tonnes in 2010. With the Director of the Agency also agreed that in view of the fourth quarter will be set up some kind of conference devoted to environment, but without specifying further. "We will work with the Catalan Waste in this area to find content that is appropriate and appealing to the public" has been committed.

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