Comieco is the National Consortium for the Recovery and Recycling of Cellulose-based Packaging. Its members are mainly: paper manufacturers, importers of paper and board packaging, recycling companies. The Consortium manages voluntarily every stage of the process that recovers and recycles paper and board collected as a whole and not only packaging waste. In order to manage the collection and the recycling, Comieco signs agreements with the local authorities and collectors.
Comieco was founded in 1985 as a voluntary association of paper manufacturing companies sharing an ethical environmental code. In 1997 – in complain with the Italian law (D.Lgs. n. 22/97modified by D.Lgs. n. 152/06) – Comieco became the National Consortium for the Recovery and Recycling of Cellulose-based Packaging.
The Comieco headquarters are based in Milan and the Comieco branch is in Rome. Learn more about "Who is Comieco?" In 2011, Comieco started internet-based tenders to recycle mixed paper and cartonboard. Paper mills, paper recovery plants and traders are allowed to participate, after an approval procedure http://aste.comieco.org
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