WHY I SHOULD USE SIGUREC

SIGUREC is SURELY Economical, SURELY Environmentally friendly!

 

SAVINGS. A major advantage of the SIGUREC collecting system is the possibility to receive bonuses for the waste you turn in:

 

• For each PET bottle you will receive a 5 Bani bonus.

 

• For each aluminum can the bonus is 3 Bani.

 

• For each glass recipient you will receive a 1 Ban bonus.

 

• Waste electrical and electronic equipment: the bonus will be calculated according to the equipment type and its weight (for instance the value per kilogram of a fridge is different than the value per kilogram of a TV set). Please consult the equipment list for details.

 

Even if at first sight you may not feel that you are saving much with the shopping vouchers, things change if we look at them from a different perspective. For instance, every man, woman, or child in Romania generates about 290 kilograms of waste every year; thus, a family of three throws away about 870 kilograms of waste every year!

 

Moreover, for the most part this is household waste, while the waste equipment account for only about one kilogram every year for each person. With SIGUREC you could save every year a significant amount of money. On the other hand, don’t forget that for every shopping bag you buy you pay a 20 Bani environmental tax; using the SIGUREC smart recycling system you will not only make your city cleaner, but you will also recoup part of your taxes!

 

EASE OF USE. A washing machine or a fridge that has to be thrown away can be – you already know it if you have ever tried to carry one down the stairs or put it in the trunk of the car – a huge pain in the neck. With SIGUREC MOBIL you can get rid of such metal monsters with just a few clicks!

 

SMART CITIES. In comparison to the developed states of the European Union, our country sits somewhere at the middle in what concerns waste collection. About 220 million tons of waste are thrown away every year in the EU, but most of it is recycled, in some cases in its entirety; in Austria, for example, all plastic packagings are recycled, while Germans recycle 99.5% of them, and the Danes recycle 99.7%.

 

Imagine Bucharest as your desk. The city landfill would then be your own garbage can with everything you throw in it, from packagings to household waste.

 

Place the garbage can next to your desk – remove the lid! – and sit at your desk as if to get working: you will get the picture of the life of a major Romanian city.

 

Have you ever wondered how the Berliners, for example, manage to have such a clean city, although it is one of the world’s largest metropolises? No, they do not work more and they do not have some strange obsession for cleanliness; Berlin is simply a „smart city”, like any city in Romania deserves to be. This is something more than just waste management; it is already a way of life – responsible, environmentally friendly, concerned with the future of our children and even… hip! Nothing is wasted, and all is recycled in a smart city!

 

The solution, of course, is the selective waste collection that has been used for decades in Western Europe. But even in these countries smart recycling systems that automatically collect and sort waste are still in their infancy.

 

Their advantages are, first of all, that they provide a handy alternative to discard waste in a way that is environmentally friendly, saving valuable natural resources and cutting to zero the impact on the environment. Sooner than we think, solutions like these could relegate landfills, still largely present in Romania, to the… trash can of history!

 

SIGUREC, the first smart recycling system launched in Romania, will turn our cities into European „smart cities” – with a cleaner air, green surroundings, and blocks of flats without garbage shoots. The first step starts with a PET bottle and a bonus. Maybe even from home, with a few clicks.