Spanish environmental group calls for deposit system

摘要

Spanish umbrella group Ecologistas en Action (Ecologists in action) has asked the country's Environment Minister to consider introducing a deposit, refund and return system (Sistema de Deposito, Devolucion y Retorno - SDDR) in its new Waste Law currently being drafted. According to the group, this system "has demonstrated its effectiveness in solving the problem of beverage containers in 34 countries". It adds that 51 million beverage containers enter the Spanish market daily (some 18,000 million annually), of which only a small portion ends up in the yellow containers managed by Spanish green dot system Ecoembalajes Espana S.A. (Ecoembes) to be recycled.