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RoRec WEEE Drop-off Centres or ‘ways you can save 54% of EEE waste’
Finmedia organised in mid-March a conference entitled ‘Competitive and efficient waste management at national level’, on a range of topics that are extremely important for Romania’s future evolution, from an environmental point of view: waste management in Romania and financial aspects of the waste market at national level.
The Romanian Association for Recycling RoRec was invited to participate at this event and presented a series of viable solutions to one of the major problems of the national environment, namely recycling waste electrical and electronic equipment.
The solution presented by the RoRec Association has already been successfully implemented in various towns in Romania. It is the basis of development in a clean environment, where respect for nature is turned into concrete actions, not mere action plans that remain on paper only.
WEEE Drop-off Centres, set up in partnership with the town halls, are spaces created for the safe and organised collection of this type of waste, in compliance with environment regulations. This is a way to prevent waste from being abandoned outside collection areas or entering parallel collection circuits.
Only 33% of WEEE put on the market in the European Union is reported as collected and treated. 13% reaches the Drop-off Centres. An important percentage, 54% of WEEE, is treated in a non-compliant way or exported illegally, harming thus the environment. The damage caused when such waste is thrown away at random leaves visible marks that are difficult to wipe off from nature. This is exactly why there is a great need for such Drop-off Centres and they can prove an essential condition for some of us to pay more attention to the environment.
