International. Ambilamp is the Spanish association that works for the recycling of lighting and has just launched a campaign through which it seeks to raise awareness about the protection of the environment with the good management of lighting waste, which should undoubtedly be replicated in Latin America.
Under the slogan "Things you would never do with a molten bulb", Ambilamp's campaign seeks to encourage the recycling of lamps, incandescent, fluorescent and LED bulbs, among others, highlighting the benefits of this practice.
For the dissemination of the awareness campaign, posters and go on public roads and television ads will be used, explaining what should be done with the lighting devices when they stop working.
This campaign is accompanied by the installation of collection points located mostly in metro stations. To locate them, each of the vans and posters will have an RQ code that will allow access to the maps on which the recycling points are.
This type of Ambilamp campaigns have given very good results. According to the statistics of the Association. While in 2009 they collected 1,707 metric tons, equivalent to 11.6 million units of lamps, last year the figures increased to 2,246 metric tons, equivalent to 15.2 million units.
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