Marius Brînzea (Reciclad’OR): packaging waste management will be shaken up in the next three years
“I think we have all come to one conclusion: crisis and permanent change will become a constant in our existence for the next few years to come.
Today we are talking about climate change, and its impact takes many forms. We have talked here about extreme weather events that obviously lead to poverty, we have talked about water shortages that lead to drought and the inability to live in certain areas, we have talked about rising water levels and the relocation of cities, rising temperatures that lead to disease.
I would like, in my short speech, to present two other forms of climate change impacts: the first one – the increase in prices of goods and raw materials and the intensification of wars for access to scarce resources”, said Marius Brînzea.
Sustainability of packaging resources
“Reciclad’OR’s work is about turning packaging waste into a resource and ensuring the sustainability of packaging resources. And we ask ourselves the following question, in the context of the above: how do we manage to make this process predictable going forward, how can we remove the barriers and frictions that exist in the supply chain and how can we make a common agenda to turn packaging waste or packaging solutions into sustainable ones and remove all these barriers.
Why am I presenting this aspect of waste today? Because a false perception has been created in the population that with this deposit-return scheme, which is a great achievement in terms of packaging waste management, that it will be some kind of Messiah and solve all waste problems. But we still have 71% of the packaging put on the market that will be turned into a resource depending on how the separate collection systems from households work.
Over the next three years, we will see a steady increase in recycling obligations for all types of packaging materials. For example, in plastics, next year we will have to collect and recycle 54% more plastic packaging waste than this year. The rate is increasing so that by 2025 we will have to collect and recycle 97% more plastic waste generated nationally.
Undoubtedly, the management of packaging and packaging waste will be shaken up considerably over the next three years. We will have to move from a general approach to a specific, practical approach, based on a lot of data, a lot of economics, to see if we can get past this hurdle”, said Marius Brînzea at the conference “Climate change, priority zero at European level. What is Romania doing?”, organised by DC Media Group.
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