This May, the draft Waste and Contaminated Land Bill will be approved by the Council of Ministers, a law whose main objective is to promote a circular economy, improve waste management in Spain and combat pollution. This future law includes the European commitments on...
Circular Economy concept is here to stay. And it is that every time it is clearer that, if not, the whole planet could have an irremediable problem. Previously, we told how PlasticsEurope had come into action in this regard. The business association representing...
Now that the first half of 2020 has passed, it is known that the growing trend in the recycling of domestic plastic packaging has continued in Spain during 2019. Throughout this year, up to 616,736 tonnes of this material were recycled, a figure 8% higher than the...
In 2019, the figure for glass packaging waste collected through the green container in Spain reached 896,450 tons. A number that marks the historical maximum recorded so far and that represents an increase of 30% in the last five years. This is reflected in the data...
In recent years, a lot of work has been done (and invested) in educating the population about recycling, especially household waste. But, a study carried out and recently published by DS Smith, a company specialized in sustainable packaging, reflects that the...
This year, the new after-composting-glass recovery line has been launched at the Waste Recovery Center of Marseme (Barcelona, Catalonia). It allows to select, classify and recycle the MSU glass that continues to be present in the organic matter at the end of the...
On Wednesday, September 25th, took place the 5th Day organized by ANARPLA and ECOEMBES, which PICVISA has attended as a gold sponsor. The challenge this year is to recycle 10 million tons of plastics in 2025, and PICVISA is a driving lever to achieve this goal....
Although there is still a lot to do when it comes to creating recycling guidelines among Spanish citizens and although it could still be much more efficient as a society when it comes to managing our waste, citizens have become accustomed to separating certain wastes....
Today we will talk about Spanish regions that give support the EU circular economy model. Circular economy has become one of the key elements to fix the current environmental situation and to solve many of the problems we face as a society. The excessive use of...
Since November 2017 until July 2018, PICVISA has jointly developed with the Computer Vision Centre (CVC) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) an artificial intelligence system based on deep learning algorithms for waste sorting and recycling. This work was...