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More than 300 professionals debate in the congress of the FER the problems and challenges to which confronts this sector

The Spanish sector of the recycling defends in Murcia his importance for the society

Editorial Interempresas17/06/2013

The sector of the recovery and the recycling of the goods out of use in Spain has gathered in Murcia in the auditssorium and Centre of Congresses Víctor Villegas in the frame of the XI National Congress of the Recovery and the Recycling to analyse the problematic of the sector as well as all the legislative and technical novelties of this so crucial sector for the environingingmental and economic development of Spain in a moment so crucial like the current.

The opening of the congress has been to charge of Miguel Ángel Camera Botía, mayor of Murcia, the one who has stood out the importance of the sector of recycling for the care of the environingingment. Beside him it has been Ion Olaeta, president of the Spanish Federation of the Recovery and the Recycling (FER) that has asked respect and recognition to the work of the sector to the that has described as “the greater mine of Spain”. “We are the sector that recycles, the one who does of what anybody wants the resource of morning”, has declared Olaeta.

Photo of group with Miguel Ángel Camera, mayor of Murcia, and Ion Olaeta, president of the FER (both in the centre of the image).

After the opening has taken place a round table that under the title 'Future of the Domestic Residue' has served to analyse this subject so much from a national perspective like international. They have participated in said table Carmen Tapia, representative of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feeding and Environingingment, Ross Bartley, technical and environingingmental director of the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), association that represents to world-wide level to the companies and associations of the recycling, José Antonio Blond, adviser of the Sub General Steering of Environingingmental Quality of the Region of Murcia, and Julio Lorente, juridical adviser of the FER.

Julio Lorente has commented that the direct delivery of recyclable waste by part of the citizens to the recuperadores legally authorised is key to advance in which it has designated “recycling of vicinity”. The advantages of this recycling would be the saving of costs for all the system, the comfort for the citizen that would see expanded the possibilities of tank of his waste valorizables and the creation of employment, something that in a moment like the current sees as very important.

Ross Bartley, technical and environingingmental director of the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), during his intervention.

By his part, Ross Bartley from a global position has posed that the recycling of vicinity results fundamental to attain a more committed society and respectful with the environingingment. Likewise, it has remembered that the Letter of Rights of the EU awards to the citizens the right of property and, therefore, the one to refuse this property.

Finally, Carmen Tapia from the punto of the Magrama has exposed the main lines of the Project of RD, that establishes the juridical diet of the transfers of waste between the Autonomous Communities following the guidelines of the European Regulation 1013/2006 relative to the transfer of the waste. In this sense, FER has asked to the Magrama that simplify the bureaucratic load to arrive to cape the gestión and transfer of the waste the maximum possible in plough to maximizar and improve the taxles of recycling.

After the round table has taken place a conference to charge of Leo Harlem, that has attained to focus the recycling in these times of crisis from an original and different angle. His conference has been received like a blow of cool air that has served to treat to change the prism of “a form amena and fun”.

In this occasion, besides, has taken place a special fact: the presentation of the book 30 Years Recycling, that collects three decades of history of our country associated to the world of the recycling. A work in which it has invested long and work and that, definitely, will be a referent en el futuro for the sector. Through his 180 pages, collects facts, news, testimonies and images of the last 30 years, showing the silent and deep transformation that has experienced the sector of the recycling in our country. The day of the Thursday has closed with a Dinner of Gala in the Finca Buenavista.

The Spanish Federation of the Recovery and the Recycling (FER) is an association created in 1982 with the end to group and defend the interests of the companies devoted to the recycling of waste in the distinct economic fields and social. The FER, integrated by more than 275 companies associated, acts for the sector recuperador and reciclador in front of the Public Administrations (Ministry of Environingingment, Ministry of Industry, etc.) and the unions, as well as in front of other business or sectorial associations, already are autonomic, national or international.