In El Prat de Llobregat, recycling grows from 38% to 55% in a single month with Nord Engineering smart containers

In El Prat de Llobregat, a municipality in the Barcelona metropolitan area, the adoption of smart containers has led to an extraordinary increase in separate collection: in just one month, the rate rose from 38% to 55%. The figures are even more significant for the individual fractions: +87% for organic waste (from 195 to 365 tonnes), +45% for packaging, +22% for paper and +11% for glass.

The key to this success lies in smart technologies such as controlled access, user identification, digital monitoring of disposals and Easy, the automated bilateral collection system, integrated into a tailor-made rollout plan developed neighbourhood by neighbourhood according to local needs. As the data confirm, all these elements encourage citizens to take an active part and make collection more efficient, safer for operators and more economically and environmentally sustainable for local authorities.

These results bring the municipality closer to the European separate collection targets: 55% by 2025 and 60% by 2030. A milestone that shows how innovation applied to collection, promoted worldwide by Nord Engineering, can deliver immediate and measurable benefits, offering a replicable model at national and international level for cities and towns of every size committed to improving their service and reaching their environmental goals.