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Market of waste appraised at 10bn euros

The Romanian waste market is appraised at some 10 billion euros a year, however, big investors are still hesitating.

A challenge to Romania is meeting European objectives on recycling. Starting last year Romania has to meet law-stipulated objectives. Theoretically, no one contests the importance of recycling, but investments are not numerous and investors do not invest in citizens' reeducation. However, Eco Rom Ambalaje, the company which regulates the Green Point collected 660,000 tonnes of packages in 2007. Sorin Popescu, general manager of Eco Rom, believes that in order to reach highly selective collection rates as in other European countries, behaviors of citizens, managers and employees of city halls and cleaning companies have to change. Calin Istratoiu, manager of Recycling of Materials department with the Ministry of Economy and Finance says the situation is better in case of waste with high economic value, such as paper or aluminium. At the opposite pole, is glass because of the collection and transport costs. Next year five million Romanians might be included in the programme of selective collection of waste unfolded by Eco Rom. If last year there were selective waste collection containers in 24 localities, serving some 700,000 inhabitants, this year their number will go up to 40 for 1.5 million people. In Bucharest, cleaning companies Urban and Rosal invested in selective waste collection containers, the first one in partnership with Eco Rom and the second one through own forces. Sursa: http://www.rompress.ro

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