Post by account_disabled on Mar 13, 2024 4:36:28 GMT -5
Waste and contaminated soils, we must keep in mind that in the coming years new European proposals are expected to modify the Waste Framework Directive, the processing of new packaging regulations and the modification of the regulations relating to waste shipments. Like all regulations, waste regulations are the fruit of their time, and, as part of the environmental legal framework, they must be dynamic to respond to the challenges of a crisis and changing environmental context. In line with the need to transform ourselves, an effort to update and continuously adapt is required. In this sense, circular economy roadmaps and planning are a valuable instrument to avoid getting lost on the path we must travel in the coming years. Furthermore, although the regulations should not be a roadmap, the aspirational objectives regarding reuse or incorporation of recycled material that are reflected in the packaging regulations indicate the path to follow in the coming years. Knowing the political and regulatory context in which the legal framework of waste is incorporated represents an opportunity to anticipate and adapt to the changing future. Acting decisively by complying and enforcing waste regulations is the most sensible option to take advantage of the window of opportunity that its closure announces.
In any case, and despite the practical difficulties presented by the implementation of some measures of the RD on Packaging, it is considered a necessary step to achieve the recycling and reuse objectives, not only of the RD on Packaging but also of Law of April 8, on Waste and Contaminated Soil for a Circular Economy, as well as an opportunity to contribute to the achievement of CZ Leads the European objectives of the Green Deal and the environmental SDGs. At SIGAUS we have created GENCI, a new SCRAP (collective system of extended producer responsibility) for the management of this waste, in order to respond to the new regulations approved on packaging and packaging waste that came into force last month December at the national level (in the Balearic Islands, where the regulations came into force in 2019, GENCI has already been fully operational since last year). With this extension of responsibility, all those companies that put products packaged in commercial or industrial packaging on the market are obliged to manage the waste from these containers.
They must establish individual RAP systems or participate in already established collective systems, such as GENCI, a multi-sector and multi-package SCRAP with which we are already helping many affected companies without even requiring a prior membership fee. The extensive experience of SIGAUS in the application of RAP, together with the experience acquired in the field of packaging waste by already operating in the Balearic Islands, make GENCI the option with the most guarantee and confidence for the assumption of these new obligations in relation with commercial and industrial packaging. In short, this new rule extends the financial and organizational obligations to producers (packers, importers or intra-Community purchasers) who put packaged products on the national market for the first time using commercial and industrial packaging, so that they will now have to finance the management of the packaging waste generated after the use of these containers, regardless of their nature, format, material or useful life. The extensive experience of SIGAUS in the application of RAP, together with the experience acquired in the field of packaging waste by already operating in the Balearic Islands, makes GENCI the option with the most guarantee and confidence for the assumption of these new obligations in relation with commercial and industrial packaging.