The first Museum of waste in Europe was inaugurated on Tuesday, in Bucharest, at the initiative of the Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development (CEDD) and the Ministry of Environment and Forests, with the support of AFI Palace Cotroceni shopping center, where the museum is located.

The museum will have 13 areas dedicated to various municipal waste and flows of their management - from packaging (plastic, paper, glass, metal) to WEEE, waste resulted from Electrical and Electronic equipment and Home appliances, from biodegradable ones to those dangerous to health, from sanitation services to co-incineration, from demolition to selective collection, from reutilization to recycling.  Attractions of the museum includes a zone of selective collection of packaging, WEEE and batteries, a special classes zone for grades I - VIII school children, the presentation zone of the portal www.MentineRomaniaCurata.ro, a zone dedicated to the Ministry of Environment and Forests, three areas of visual presentation of the problems of littering, as well as an area for exhibitions, one of the main attraction being the "Route of waste."

In Romania, only around 4 million people have access to selective recycling facilities and Romania ranks among the last places in Europe when it comes to recycling.

AGERPRES