The Municipal Institute of Markets of Barcelona (IMMB) is a autonomous body created in 1991 for the direct management and administration of the municipal markets, under the auspecies of Barcelona City Council.
2015-25
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Social and environmental responsibility
The IMMB has eleven years’ experience in the development of educational programmes that approach children to a direct, educational experience aimed at conveying the values of buying healthy, fresh and quality products, which contribute its part in training people to be responsible with their environment and with society.
Institutional cooperation
The IMMB persists in its sustained will in recent years, to share and cooperate with other national and international institutions, which ask us to make known our model of management, or for advice on reform processes or improvement in other markets. During 2020, these actions and visits were limited by the situation of the pandemic. However we can highlight the following:
Solidarity initiatives and corporate responsibility
The markets of Barcelona are a regular space for carrying out solidarity initiatives. As follows, we highlight the special collaborations with the entities and some of the actions that have become a reality thanks to the promotion by the traders. In 2020, the following examples of support took place.
Environment and sustainability
As highlighted, one of the three major axes defined in the Strategic Plan 2015-2025, municipal markets are synonymous with values associated with social, environmental and cultural sustainability. The evolution of the quantity of waste shows a progressive reduction in the total numberof tons collected, especially in volume of the fraction of the waste.
Evolution of the waste collection (Tn)
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surplus | 8,236.62 | 7,880.84 | 7,447.76 | 6,953.58 | 6,996.16 | 5,779.86 |
| Selective waste: |
5,223.18 | 5,065.32 | 4,976.22 | 5,044.58 | 4,727.30 | 4,005.41 |
| — organic | 4,066.26 | 3,967.68 | 3,915.12 | 3,857.26 | 3,589.12 | 3,014.19 |
| — paper-cardboard | 1,156.92 | 1,097.64 | 1,061.10 | 1,187.32 | 1,138.18 | 991.22 |
| Total | 13,549.80 | 12,946.16 | 12,423.98 | 11,998.16 | 11,723.46 | 9,785.27 |