Post by account_disabled on Mar 13, 2024 4:43:49 GMT -5
The efforts we must make are extraordinary if we want to achieve the objectives of preparation for reuse and recycling provided for by European and national regulations. By VICTOR MORALO 6354 readings AUTHOR VICTOR MORALO 10-05-2023 HANG TAGS CIRCULAR ECONOMY The ultimate purpose of Law 7/2022, of April 8, on waste and contaminated soils for the circular economy, is to advance the circular economy, harmonize, improve information and traceability of waste and strengthen governance in this area. The Law incorporates the European directives into our legal system in a way that further reinforces the application of the principle of hierarchy through the mandatory use of economic instruments, strengthens prevention, increases medium and long-term objectives of preparation for reuse and recycling of municipal waste and establishes the obligation of new separate collections, among others, for bio-waste, textile waste and hazardous household waste. To this end, the law provides that the competent authorities adopt the necessary measures to ensure that waste is destined for preparation for reuse, recycling or other recovery operations. It is the way to respond effectively and in its maximum exponent to the very vocation of the law, a vocation consisting of making the transition to a low-carbon circular economy with innovative and sustainable business models, products and materials.
This end, the adoption of economic, financial and fiscal measures is legitimized to improve waste management, promote and strengthen markets for products from preparation for reuse and recycling. Now, we necessarily have to be realistic, both economic and legal operators, and civil society itself, must know very well what the current diagnosis of the situation is and the way of proceeding that has been followed in recent years, since It will condition us in the future. Certainly, it is mandatory to remember that Spain has not been carrying out CZ Leads practically any of the recommendations offered in the official reports prepared by the European Commission to achieve the preparation objectives for reuse and recycling planned for the year 2020, especially when in the alert reports Early on it was already indicated that Spain was at risk of not achieving the objective for that year if it did not take serious and disruptive actions. Indeed, to date the Spanish State had not imposed a system of mandatory selective collection of bio-waste, had not introduced a harmonized tax regime on waste disposal, nor had it imposed mandatory municipal waste taxes, among other suggested measures, so that It was impossible for him to reach the 50% recycling goal. Progress in waste management has been limited, which leaves us facing a flagrant non-compliance with the Waste Framework Directive.
The Directorate General for the Environment of the European Commission then came to understand that there was a risk for Spain of not achieving the 50% recycling target for 2020, as stated in the "2018 early warning report", although stated that the figures corresponding to 2020 do not have to be communicated to the Commission until mid-2022, so it was not feasible to make a conclusive and definitive analysis until that date. But today a conclusive and objective analysis can be made. The “Annual Report on Waste Generation and Management, Waste of Municipal Competence 2020” published by the MITERD, reflects that progress in waste management has been limited and that the initial objective of 50% waste recycling has not been achieved. municipal waste for 2020. Thus, the published global recycling rate is 40.5%, which places us in flagrant non-compliance with the objective of the Waste Framework Directive. Furthermore, 40% of the amount counted as recycled comes from the biostabilization of the rest fraction. That is, the recycling ratio would have been 24.3% if the biostabilized waste from the rest fraction had not been accounted for. This situation is much more worrying if we analyze it by Autonomous Communities , as most of them have a selective collection value well below that required, especially the most populated ones with the greatest weight in the generation of waste such as Madrid or Andalusia. The MITERD also points out that, of the 20.7 million tons collected by the Municipalities, 79% correspond to the mixed garbage fraction and the remaining 21% corresponds to selective collection: paper-cardboard, light packaging and glass. And he ends by pointing out that many of the Autonomous Communities dump part of their waste untreated.
