{"id":6766,"date":"2017-10-13T09:14:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T07:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/?p=6766"},"modified":"2017-10-13T09:16:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T07:16:41","slug":"mojacar-recycles-112-tons-of-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/mojacar-recycles-112-tons-of-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Moj\u00e1car recycles 112 tons of glass over the summer and receives the &#8220;igl\u00fa verde&#8221;award."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> Moj\u00e1car recycles 112 tons of glass over the summer and receives the &#8220;igl\u00fa verde&#8221;award.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the summer, Eco Vidrio, the non-profit organization managing the recycling of glass packaging waste in Spain, have managed to collect 112 tons of glass with the co-operation of Almanzora-Levante-V\u00e9lez Consortium and Moj\u00e1car Council, an increase of 56% over the same period last year.<br \/>\n\tMoj\u00e1car has received the &#8216;Iglo Verde&#8217; award for having surpassed last year\u2019s glass recycling figures and, also in recognition of the commitment to this form of sustainability shown by those in the hospitality trade as well as townspeople. Eco Vidrio increased the range and size of their comprehensive glass recycling plan over the busy summer, an initiative that aimed to raise awareness and the number of participants within the hospitality trade. In this period, 80 establishments in Moj\u00e1car collaborated, which is highly important, given that they generate 50% of the disposable glass waste. In addition, the summer season is extremely vital to the plan, as 30% of the year\u2019s recycled glass is collected then.<br \/>\n\tThis local success is down to the participation of catering professionals and Moj\u00e1car Council, backed up Eco Vidrio\u2019s publicity campaign by. To encourage people to take part, the organisation has installed extra containers as well as decorating many with awareness raising summer motifs. Also, the professional establishments have been provided with 71 specially adapted collection holders, as well as increasing the frequency of their glass pickups. The plan has seen 80 coastal municipalities and 6,300 hotel establishments decide to participate, thus managing to recycle a total of over 27,900 tons of glass containers, avoiding CO2 emissions equivalent to taking 4,500 cars out of circulation.<br \/>\n\tAccording to the figures for 2016, the people of Moj\u00e1car recycled a total of 106,144 kilograms of glass in their 52 collection \u2018igloos\u2019 (averaging 1 per 125 inhabitants), which means that each person recycled on average 16.3 kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moj\u00e1car recycles 112 tons of glass over the summer and receives the &#8220;igl\u00fa verde&#8221;award. Over the summer, Eco Vidrio, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6769,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6766\/revisions\/6769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}