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The edition of this year, that has celebrated the days 14 and 15 June in Ifema, has gathered to more than 300 companies recicladoras

10°National Congress of the Recovery and the Recycled

Editorial Interempresas19/06/2012

19 June 2012

Luis Valero Artola, General secretary of Industry and of Small and medium enterprise of the Ministry of Industry, went the attendant to realise the opening of the 10°Congress of the Recovery, doing upsetting in the importance of the sector of the recycled like industrial engine of Spain, that does of his day in day out the care of the environingingment of real and effective form.

Luis Valero encouraged to the sector to continue with the improvements and the investigation, although it advanced that the previous economic situation is forcing to the Ministry to reduce a lot the helps. In words of Valero, “do not go to give the economic helps with a hose but with a system of irrigation drop to drop”. Nevertheless it stood out the commitment of the Ministry of Industry with the sector confirming that, in some measure “are lobbystas of the industry in front of Environingingment”.

After the opening, the journalist Fernando Ónega transmitted to the presents through a conference magistral a different point of view on the world of the recycling. Ónega Began remembering his days of infancy in Galicia collecting the old ironingings that found abandoned by the field to win some pesetas with which buy biscuits of vainilla. Along a very very received conference was analysing the importance of the recycling of metals and other materials in the current society since without the reincarnation of the things through the recycling our society would be abocada to the abyss.

Ion Olaeta, president of FER, and Fernando Onega, journalist, during the opening conference of the Congress.

Finally took place a round table in which they treated two fundamental subjects for the sector and of crucial importance in this moment. Like this, Begoña Fabrellas, technical adviser of the General Sub-directorate of Waste of the Ministry Agriculture, Feeding and Environingingment, exposed in his intervention the new panorama that the transposition of the New European Directive of Waste of Electrical and Electronic Devices goes to suppose.

By his part, Alicia García-Franco, general director of FER, exposed the importance that for the future of the sector can have the fact that the materials that treats, once ready, leave to consider waste to be considered products. García-Franco commented how thanks to the recently approved rule as a result of the New Directive Mark of Waste the scraps of aluminium or steel once that they are in disposal to be used by the consumers can leave to have the consideration of residue. It explained also that the procedure for said de-rating was simpler of what initially could seem and that the FER had elaborated a series of documentation and guides of hygiene that could be of help to the companies that wanted to receive to this possibility.

The Prize Mother Tierra, created for homenajear to those institutions that have showed a special commitment with the recycling, recayó in Francis Veys, general director of BIR

Second day

The Friday 15 June, took place the General Assembly of FER. In her they have been approved the new projects for the following year. After the welcome of the new members in FER in which they stand out the associations Agresur and Anrepa, celebrated a presentation of the sponsors of the congress of the hand of Solmec/MaquiHenar, S.L. And of Hidroeuropa, S.L.

To continuation delivered the Prizes to A Life Devoted to the Recovery, prizes created to recognise the professional path of employers and professionals of the sector recuperador to way of sectorial collective homage. In this announcement the rewarded have been: Pedro Alberich (Francisco Alberich, S.To) and Juan Stone (Iberinox 88, S.A.).

Rewarded in the Congress and Managerial of FER.

After which has taken place the delivery of the already very prestigious Reward Mother Tierra. This prize, created for homenajear to those institutions that have showed a special commitment with the recycling has been delivered to Francis Veys, general director of the Burau of International Recycling (BIR), patronal world-wide of the companies recicladoras.

This 10°Congress formed part of the group of meetings and events that framed in the Living room of the Recovery and the Recycling that celebrated jointly with Tecma, organised by the Spanish Federation of the Recovery coinciding with the celebration this year of the 30 anniversary of the foundation of FER.