General Information
The Spanish state has transposted the European Directive 94/62/EC into the Packaging and Packaging Waste Act 11/97. This law states that there are two options open to fillers, retailers, distributors and handlers of packaged products: a Deposit and Return System or join an Integrated Management System.
ECOEMBALAJES ESPAÑA, S.A. (ECOEMBES) was founded by Spanish trade and industry in order to develop an Integrated Management System to implement this legislation, and already boasts 12.000 member companies and has signed agreements with 100 government authorities.
The purpose of Ecoembes is to run systems created for selective collection of household packaging waste in order to carry out a subsequent treatment and packaging waste recovery and, therefore, to minimize the impact of packaging waste and to make a better use of the materials.
