The Costa del Sol recovered more than 14.6 million kilos of glass in 2025

The Association of Municipalities of the Western Costa del Sol recovered more than 16.4 million kilograms of glass last year, recording an average of 27.4 kilograms per inhabitant which exceeds the averages in Andalusia and Spain, as reported this Friday by the president of the institution, Manuel Cardeña.

Cardeña highlighted this based on the data from the report presented by Ecovidrio, the company contracted for the collection service within the Association, which includes the tons recovered through the door-to-door (PaP) service and in the HORECA channel (the channel for hotel and hospitality facilities).

Specifically, the total collected last year in the associated municipalities amounted to 14,614 tons of glass. The average in Andalusia in 2025 was 15.3 kilograms per inhabitant and 19.2 kilograms nationally, while the average for the Association is 27.4 kilograms per inhabitant, according to the supra-municipal institution's statement.

Cardeña noted that “the collection of glass in the Association of the Costa del Sol accounts on average for 47% of the entire province, which clearly demonstrates the involvement of the citizens of the Western Costa del Sol in recycling and, therefore, in environmental care.”

The president of the Association emphasized that after a meeting with Ecovidrio officials, “the Strategic Plan 2025-2030 will continue, which includes fundamental goals of a 75% recycling rate for glass and an 80% rate of separate collection.” “We cannot stop, thinking everything is done. We need to keep moving forward, we need to increase these parameters however good they may seem,” he added.

According to him, the main tools to achieve these goals are the ‘EcoNeighborhoods’ campaigns, annual mobilization initiatives focused on citizens; the installation of containers in strategic areas, the ‘EcoVares’ campaigns, annual mobilization initiatives focused on the HORECA channel, and the so-called innovative collection solutions, which aim to ensure personalized collection in priority areas where regular collection is not possible.

There are also plans for awareness campaigns, such as the Green Flags Plan, which includes events at fairs like the one in Fuengirola, and at festivals such as Mare Nostrum and Starlite.

Other projects of interest include the "Ecovidrio Administrations Portal," a pioneer in Spain where integrated updated data on the collection of glass container waste can be consulted, such as daily collection data and by container, the census of containers by municipality, information on the status of container incidents, and filling curves of the containers.