Published on December 28, 2015.-
On Tuesday, December 15, 2015, the Senate Environment Committee dispatched the Law for the Promotion of Recycling and Extended Producer Responsibility. It should be remembered that what this law seeks is to establish a general framework for the management of hazardous waste in the country, and that certain types of products allocate an important part of the material that compose them to recycling, reuse or revaluation of these.
Likewise, the Extended Producer Responsibility (REP) regulates that anyone who introduces a priority product for the first time in the national market, is responsible for organizing and financing the waste management of the products that are marketed in the country.
For his part, Pablo Badenier, Minister of the Environment, assures that "this is a very necessary public policy for the country, in which we have incorporated grassroots recyclers, industry and municipalities" and that "with this, Chile is going to have better systems for differentiated collection, recovery, and ultimately the power to make recycling a formal industry and part of the daily activity of families ”, he concludes.
