In the latest issue of the digital magazine of RETEMA (Revista Técnica de Medio Ambiente), an extensive interview to Marc Raventós, director of Sales & Engineering of SPR Group, was published. In it, Raventós reviews the origins of the company, its position in the recycling and waste treatment industry, as well as the forecasts of
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Last June, the Council of Ministers approved the Spanish Circular Economy Strategy (SCES), in addition to the draft of the Waste and Contaminated Soil Law, whose main objective is to offer an effective solution to the growing volume of waste and reduce the use of plastics. This is in response to European Directives UE218/851 on
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Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, known by its acronym as WEEE, are all those appliances and electronic devices that once they stop operating and are useless are considered as waste. What are WEEE? At the legislative level, according to the Spanish Real Decreto 110/2015 of 20th February, “Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment” or “WEEE”
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In 2005, SPR Group was founded as an industrial group by a group of German professionals who already had more than 30 years of experience in complementary sectors to the waste recovery sector such as heavy machinery manufacturers, waste treatment and the cement or energy production industries. In this way, SPR Group is built from
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The circular economy is an economic and productive strategy whose objective is to reduce as much as possible the use of raw materials in production processes and thereby to minimize the generation of non-recyclable waste. It is, in short, a resource use system whose basic pillar is the so-called “four R’s”: reduce, reuse, repair and
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Spain is the European Union country which discharges the most waste to dumps: A total of 12 million tonnes per year in 2017, the last year with available data. A total of 132.1 million tonnes of waste were generated in Spain that year. The majority came from industries (31,12%), construction (26,75%) and households (17,1%). You
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In the face of the global health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the recycling industry is being forced to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances around the world. Waste management is an essential activity Waste management and decontamination activities are included in the list of essential activities decreed by the government of Spain during this
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The challenges of plastic recycling: every minute the equivalent of a garbage truck is dumped into the sea
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Plastic consumption at both the domestic and industrial levels has been increasing steadily for decades. In 1950, the world’s population was about 2,5 billion people, generating 1,5 million tons of plastic. Almost seventy years later, in 2016, the world was inhabited by 7 billion people and plastic production exceeded 320 million tons. That is to
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China was many years the main waste importer of the world. It is estimated that between 1992 and 2017 the Asian Giant received almost the half of the plastic waste that were produced in the world. Only in 2016, China imported 7.35 millions of tons of waste from 43 different countries. China was then a