Captain Steel, the famous recycling superhero, is ready to set off again to complete his mission: to teach the importance of separate waste collection and the circular economy. From Thursday 25 April, according to a press release from Ricrea (national steel packaging recycling and recovery consortium), it will be traveling to meet great epiccini in the first four events of the 2024 edition, stopping at the Comicon in Naples and in the squares of Chieti, Latina and Siena.
"In 2023, Italy achieved extraordinary results, achieving a recycling rate for steel packaging of 87.8%, already significantly exceeding the European target of 80% set for 2030" declared Domenico Rinaldini, president of Ricrea. In 2023, an average of 4.8 kg of steel packaging per inhabitant was collected, and 428,043 tonnes were sent for recycling (+2% compared to the previous year), sufficient to build approximately 4,280 km of railway tracks, capable to ideally cover the distance between Rome and Oslo.
In the coming weeks the initiative promoted by Ricrea, part of the Conai System (National Packaging Consortium), will give citizens the opportunity to discover that steel is 100% infinitely recycled, and that correct disposal is the first step to trigger the virtuous circuit of the circular economy.
In the various stages, Capitan Acciaio will concretely demonstrate how, thanks to recycling, all steel packaging such as jars, cans, drums, cans, buckets, cans, crown caps and closures can be reborn in the form of new products. Among the many initiatives planned, creative-play workshops aimed at children, quizzes and games and finally an award ceremony for the most virtuous cities, in recognition of the results achieved.