87% of the Catalans affirms to separate all or almost all the containers for his recycling

87% of the Catalans affirms to separate all or almost all the containers that deposit in the yellow containers, green and blue for his recycling. It treats of the main conclusion of the ‘basic Study of Habits and Attitudes of the Spanish Population with regard to the Separation of the Waste and the Collected Selective' that has been elaborated by Ipsos for Ecoembes, the organisation that takes care the environingingment through the recycling and the ecodiseño of the containers in Spain.

The study has done on a sample of 4.500 surveys in all the national territory with the aim to obtain information about how the Spaniards separate, for his back recycling, the domestic waste more common that generate in his homes, like the containers, the batteries or the glass, among others.

To the hour to analyse the motivations that carry to the Catalans to separate the waste in his homes, according to this study, the majority do it by environingingmental reasons, although the social and educational appearances also concern them. In fact, at present 95% of the citizens that ensures to recycle, does it to contaminate less and protect the environingingment and 94% of them by civismo, since it considers that separate the containers and deposit them in the suitable container is a way to educate well to his children. A similar figure of citizens (91%) bet by the profits that suppose the reuse of materials and to leave a better planet to the coming generations.

Regarding the citizens that declare not separating his waste, the study also has analysed the reasons that adduce not to do it. The personal questions, like the fault of space in his kitchens (25%), and the logistical reasons, like the absence of containers for some waste (16%) or the distance to visit until them (15%), turn into the main reasons esgrimidos. Besides, they are the women those that in the home have purchased the main role like separador of the waste, as they recognise 70% of the interviewed.

The study also evaluates the knowledge by part of the Catalans of the waste that it is necessary to deposit in the distinct containers. 87% of which declare to separate, affirm that the containers of cardboard and the paper deposit in the blue container, and with regard to the yellow container, 82% identify it like place to allocate the containers of plastic, 74% the briks and of 62% the tins of metal.

“The citizens are increasingly concienciados on the profits of the recycling of face to the care of the environingingment. We keep a positive tendency that follows situating to Spain like a committed country with the recycling and the care of the environingingment”. It is important that continue betting by the collaboration between all the parts involved to follow increasing the results of recycling in our country”, has ensured Antonio Barrón, director of Corporate Communication and Marketing of Ecoembes.