The task of collecting household packaging from the yellow and blue bins and transporting it to the facilities where recycling is carried out falls on Spain's more than 8,100 town halls.

They can gain first-hand knowledge of how much packaging the residents place in these bins thanks to their daily participation at the street level in this first phase allows them to acquire first-hand information of how much packaging of that which the member companies put on the market is deposited by residents. This data allows us to track the changes in citizen involvement in household packaging recycling over the previous few years.

The amount of packaging that locals have disposed of in the yellow and blue bins during the past several years, as well as the number of bins, are shown here. You may also check these numbers for your town or city.

In our nation, yellow (plastic, carton, and metal bin) and blue (paper and cardboard bin) bins are used for the selective collection of household packaging. In Spain, the great majority of people live less than 100 metres from the recycling bins.

More information about Spain's selective collection of household packaging may be found on our transparency site.