The first article of this year we will dedicate to address an important issue for the future of all, because no matter where we live, we only have one planet and its degradation with some nuances and differences, affects us all alike speak of EU objective on climate change and energy sustainability is included in the "The 2020 target" this goal has among its priorities it aims to achieve emissions reductions of greenhouse gases and generating 20% of energy through renewable energy, in regard to recycling our waste, on that date, you must recycle 50% of our waste from plastic, cardboard i glass.
In 2020 we the Catalans a sovereign nation or follow integrated into the kingdom of Spain, we meet the requirements of the objectives set by the EU, are part of it, and I think this is an important issue on the basis of the figures we have territorial level and with the evidence that we have only one planet.
So I think interesting to introduce this article on the "Objective 2020" EU macro figures as generic article, then I entroncarlo with a series of articles in figures micro confined to our environment, in order to analyze changes They can and should assume the 2020 target in our territory as well as contrasting as far as possible the problems that can lead us in the future, if citizens do not put their two cents, so necessary for achieving the objective 2020 globally.
The first thing we say is that we have only one planet, with limited resources, and must know that our actions are causing some changes on the planet with devastating consequences, not in vain, and in this sense some scientists have called this period land, "The era of the Anthropocene" The root of the word comes from the union of Greek terms (Anthropos) "meaning humanity" (Cene) "which means era or period in the history of the Land" and defined in a word the era in which the earth, where economic activity affects human beings on the planet drastic changes such as droughts lives; floods; warm winters; or the cool summers, these changes globally in very abbreviated terms and confined locally, affecting our crops and our way of doing cultures, given the change in the temperature, the emission of greenhouse gases that are generating which promotes global warming, the lack of rain with consequent drought or the occurrence of rains with their floods, warming seas and oceans affects the balance of the marine ecosystem in a chain of events produced by the activities of humans that in the end we see reflected directly in the seafood we consume. So all these actions globally had just affecting everyone individually to us and our descendants.
That's why I think important today, take a clear and concise determination to stop the looming disaster that changing the way we use our natural resources and to reuse what we already have. Our global legacy for generations to come, and particularly for our progeny is the planet we inhabit in all its magnitude, and we must preserve it for future generations to enjoy it, and may, as we can today see some mountains and rivers mountains and seas full of life and biodiversity that allow us to live in harmony on the planet for millennia.
So I think we should do to build sustainable societies with their environment and to do and therefore one of the factors, such as recycling of our waste, the proper use of our raw materials, our energy sources and creating cities that are installed properly and sustainably with the environment, not to, green mountains disappear from the planet and we remain barren mountains and rivers and seas without life, flanked by mountains of waste, due to the exhaustion of resources and the morning our children and grandchildren will be a lot worse than we inherited from our parents in this regard world. We must be the generation that put the foundations of a society that preserves the planet as a common good, and we must do carrying out actions that lead us to make rational use of the resources we have, because they will not forget, and this is very important, but it seems obvious that we have only one planet for all.
Together with the cited above mind on 2020 targets, the EU reminds us through a report by the European Environment Agency, with the proper recycling of our waste we reduce greenhouse gases and time as is obvious We save resources of our raw materials through the reuse of recycled materials. The figures on emissions and guarantee it, with improved treatment of municipal waste between 2001 and 2010 it was possible to reduce by 56% the greenhouse gases or what is the same is reduced by 38 tonnes of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
EU on the other hand indicates that the recycling sector is a good sector at the center of economic growth, taking into account the difficult situation of employment in Europe, and restricting it to Spain, and in the absence of solid projects aimed at generating employment and at the same time help us to lay the foundations for a sustainable eco industry, we should cons
ider this sector as a pointer in the generation of employment on the basis of the following figures. As we said EU if we carry out all agreed legislation on recycling the serious economic savings of MEUR 72,000 400,000 jobs generated in the EU by 2020. Only in the area of plastics recycling, recycling 70% of here 2020 in this industry, it could create 162,000 jobs in the 27 EU countries.
We must nevertheless regret at the micro level that if we circumscribe this problem to the local level, and talking about recycling figures in the region, we pushed in one direction which leads to that in 2020 we will not reach the minimum required by the EU, unless we take action to make this possible today and that this immediate consequence will mean that our bill for the recycling of waste not separated will be much higher, if the above reasons have not given a reason perhaps this is sufficient, this circumscribed figures micro means, we will pay more money for the garbage fee, of one form or another, so I think we need to put on the table solutions and recycle more and better with much more effective than we currently have deployed formulas, oriented campaigns to explain to people the reasons why it has to be recycled; in that sense this will be the next topic of my paper recycling our waste and the need to find more effective solutions much closer formulas, practices as well as instructive.Antonio Garcia Leal
