Post by account_disabled on Mar 13, 2024 4:04:14 GMT -5
Recent regulations on waste, such as Waste Law or the Packaging Regulation, note the disorder and lack of planning to address issues that Europe has been demanding for a long time. By ISAAC PERAIRE SOLER 3947 readings AUTHOR ISAAC PERAIRE SOLER AGS CIRCULAR ECONOMY The waste policy in Spain has been developed late and with an excessive centralization approach. Go ahead and it is evident that there was and must be made an effort by the Spanish Government in this regard, and therefore it is welcome, but the recent regulations (law n waste, as well as the Packaging Regulation), note the disorder and lack of planning to address issues that Europe had been demanding for a long time. An example, through Law a tax has been established on incineration and landfilling , which, although it is correct that it exists since there are communities where nothing was done about it, has meant a lamination of powers in those communities. that we had it (waste fee), and that it has made us advance a lot in waste prevention and recycling policies.
This fact has forced us to discuss with the State the transfer of the management of this tax in order to continue with the policy developed in Catalonia. But I believe that this was not the way, in a plurinational State we must reach consensus and respect the particularities of the different territories. The State's haste and lack of planning are evident; it may end up being fined by CZ Leads Europe in this field of waste, for not meeting objectives. We'll see when I have to apply the effective criteria regarding waste data , why until now in the case of municipal waste the treatment of organic matter from the rest fraction is considered composting, when in reality we are not talking about organic matter. selectively collected and that is what has to be considered. This will surely reduce the percentages of selective collection, placing Spain at values โโof only 20% of material recovery. This aspect of non-compliance, if in the end it is fined, may lead the State to make an effort to provide more economic resources for the communities . If progress is to be made in this field, a substantial increase in available resources is necessary to ensure that the entire territory can develop a genuine effort in the selective collection of waste.
Spain has the pending issue of separating biowaste, which represents close to 40% of the waste composition. That is one of the main vectors that would have to be worked on, and also advance in new fractions such as textile waste. We have already been promoting this fraction and we have addressed with the sector the Pact for Circular Fashion, a voluntary pact between institutions and companies in the different links of the textile value chain of Catalonia that will facilitate the incorporation of circularity measures, the promotion of projects collaborative and improving the competitiveness of the sector. If progress is to be made in this field, a substantial increase in available resources is necessary to ensure that the entire territory can develop a genuine effort in the selective collection and treatment of waste. In a certain way, many of the policies that we have promoted from Catalonia, when structural measures have been introduced by the State, have often led to little economic recognition of the efforts developed in Catalonia. Many of the financial funds received have been insufficient, I believe that this would be an aspect that the State would have to rethink. In short, we are facing a waste policy in Spain that is being applied late, with a lack of planning, without or with little territorial consensus, and with a centralizing effect that invades the communities' own competency frameworks. Communities, like ours, that have worked a lot and still want โ and must โ do more.