Bizkaiko Foru Aldundia - Diputación Foral de Bizkaia

Why and How To recycle

We produce too much rubbish. More than one kilogram per day per person. Nevertheless, a considerable proportion of the waste we generate can be reused and recycled. And this is something that depends on us to a large extent.

By taking advantage of the material value of waste, we improve the environmental health of our milieu. When we collaborate in the work of recycling, we protect the environment.

Without doubt, we human beings have become the main cause of the deterioration of the environment and, at the same time, its main victims. Hence, our individual and collective responsibility when we fashion our environmental habits and behaviour.

The generation of waste is one of the biggest environmental problems of advanced societies in this new century. We cannot continue being our own executioners.

• We must put a stop to the trend towards increasing amounts of waste.
• We must reduce the amount of waste dumped in controlled landfills.
• We must take advantage of the material and energy value of rubbish.
• We must contaminate less.
• We must save raw materials and energy.