{"id":1356,"date":"2024-08-20T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T09:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2024-08-20T09:02:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T09:02:40","slug":"environment-minister-romanias-deposit-return-scheme-works-as-expected-collection-rate-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1356","title":{"rendered":"Environment minister: Romania\u2019s deposit-return scheme \u201cworks as expected,\u201d collection rate on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s Deposit-Return System, SGR, \u201cworks as expected,\u201d environment minister <strong>Mircea Fechet<\/strong> said, noting that the collection rate of recyclable packaging is rising constantly. By fall, the number of collected packages is expected to reach 2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results are positive. If we look at the numbers, we passed 1.3 billion (e.n. returned packages) at the end of July, and we\u2019ll soon reach the second billion, which means a lot for the environment, just as it means a lot for business and jobs,\u201d minister Fechet said, quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agerpres.ro\/mediu\/2024\/08\/19\/fechet-despre-sgr-o-sa-atingem-in-curand-si-cel-de-al-doilea-miliard-de-ambalaje-reciclate--1342765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agerpres<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth regional center for collecting and processing SGR packaging was opened in Dolj county on Monday, August 19, and the environment minister said the new opening proves that the scheme is working.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly the equipment here cost over EUR 6 million and created 120 green jobs,\u201d Mircea Fechet said.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned, however, that certain things still need to be improved regarding this system, especially at the collection points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are often unjustifiably long queues at those collection machines, there are stores that today, eight months from the launch of the Deposit-Return System, simply refuse, even though the law obliges them, to take the packaging from people,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/Sabin Cirstoveanu)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s Deposit-Return System, SGR, \u201cworks as expected,\u201d environment minister Mircea Fechet said, noting that the collection rate of recyclable packaging is rising constantly. By fall, the number of collected packages is expected to reach 2 billion. \u201cThe results are positive. If we look at the numbers, we passed 1.3 billion (e.n. returned packages) at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}