SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Sep 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife will build eight new clean points on the island and will improve another five, as announced by the insular councilor for Sustainable Development and the Fight against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez Medina.
The new facilities will be located in Los Rodeos (La Laguna), Tegueste, Las Eras (Fasnia), the Environmental Complex of Tenerife (Arico), Granadilla de Abona, Las Chafiras (San Miguel), Vilaflor and Playa de San Juan (Guide to Isora).
Similarly, five of the eight currently existing clean points will be improved and expanded: those of Jagua (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), Taco (La Laguna), Buenavista, Güímar and Adeje.
The drafting of these projects has been awarded for 37,412.55 euros and a term of 9 months, and the subsequent investment for the execution of future works amounts to 6.6 million euros. The construction of the new clean points will be done in a staggered manner and the first to be enabled will be Vilaflor.
The counselor stressed that in this way the map of clean points on the island included in the Special Territorial Plan for Waste Management (PTEOR) of Tenerife will be completed, underlining that these new facilities “are a priority of the Cabildo government team in this mandate, since it is essential for a territory with a delicate environmental balance such as the island to have the most adequate and sustainable collection and management of waste possible “.
Rodríguez Medina remarked that the clean points, which in 2020 received about 42,000 tons of waste deposited by some 229,000 users, contribute to the promotion of the circular economy and “play a fundamental role in management, being an infrastructure that allows receiving an amount very large amount of waste and, moreover, of a very varied typology “, which helps with the separation at source and then allows the least amount of waste to be buried in the discharge cell of the Tenerife Environmental Complex. In this regard, the counselor stressed that public awareness is “essential to separate the largest volume of waste at source.”
The current eight separate waste collection points are located in Jagua (in an area near the Santa Cruz de Tenerife fishing basin), Taco (La Cuesta-Taco general highway, in La Laguna), Güímar industrial estate, Arona (ascent to the San Lorenzo Valley), Adeje (crossing of Armeñime), Buenavista del Norte (Los Pasitos), La Orotava (San Jerónimo industrial estate) and La Guancha (uphill road to the municipality).
For more information on the location and hours of the clean points, in the link https: //www.tenerife.es/portalcabtfe/es/temas/residuos/punto …
