World Recycling Day was an initiative of a group of environmentalists from Texas in 1994 and is celebrated on 17^th May every year.

According to Ecoembes, in the last 25 years in Spain we have gone from recycling 5% of the packaging used at home to 78.8%.

In total, 1.490,283 tons of plastic containers, cans, cartons, paper, and cardboard containers were recycled, which prevented the emission of 1.6 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.

In Spain, we only recycle 33.5%, according to Eurostat data, falling far short of the European Union target, set at 65% by 2035.