Garbiker: High Environmental Performance
Second Integral Plan for Urban waste management of Biscay
Why recycle? How is it done?
Garbigunes
Yellow recycling bin
Packaging materials recycled
Definitions
Types of packaging materials
The significance of the symbols
Advice for reducing the use of packaging materials
Separation Plant
Recycling Bins Placed Araba
Recycling Bins Placed Bizkaia
Amounts collected - Municipios
Amounts collected - Garbigunes
Amounts collected - Otros Centros
Controlled Landfields
Companies taking part
Visitor application form
Yellow recycling bin
The yellow recycling bin is for depositing metal, plastic and tetrabrik cartons, cans and bottles.
The first yellow recycling bin was introduced at 12 p.m. on September 28 1998 in the Parque de la Conchita in Güeñes. By December 31 2007, Garbiker had placed 3,266 recycling bins of 3 and 3.5 m3 litres to serve 113 municipalities, the users of the Garbigunes and several shopping centres.
Garbiker undertakes the daily collection of packages deposited in containers with a fleet of 11 vehicles, equipped with a crane and top-loading compactor unit. There is also a recycling bin cleaning vehicle.
If we add the total kilometres that GARBIKER's lorries have travelled in their selective pick-up service, we observe that the distance covered, namely 1.589.268 kilometres, is equivalent to going round the world 40 times.
The waste from the packaging containers collected are taken to the separation and classification plant in Amorebieta-Etxano: "Bizkaiko Zabor Berziklategia S.L." "(B.Z.B.)". This company was set up on February 1 1999. An investment of 2.6 million euros was undertaken at the end of 2003, aimed at increasing the plant's capacity and automating its production system.
In the year 2007, 8,448,985 kg of waste was collected.
Since it began its activities and up to December 31 2006, Garbiker has removed a total of 49,341,080 kg from the bottles and cartons recycling bins.
