The Cabildo will take the approval of the concession to the UTE Arico Green Gass company for its installation in plot AG2 of the Tenerife Environmental Complex to the Island Government Council. The company has proposed an offer based on the treatment of 90,454 tons per year of organic fraction from the mechanical treatment plant, 24,702 tons per year of sewage sludge and 14,100 tons per year of livestock waste, which adds up to 129,256 tons per year , as reported by the insular institution.
The winning company will implement biomethanization processes, consisting of the anaerobic digestion technique, using the digestate for composting, which is considered material recovery. Therefore, any type of energy recovery is clear from the company’s proposal, despite the fact that it was allowed in the bidding documents, the Cabildo reported.
This closes a bidding process that began in 2021 through which it is intended to provide an industrial infrastructure to the Tenerife Environmental Complex that processes a quantity of waste that is currently deposited in a dumping cell. This tender has been endorsed three times by a study by the University of La Laguna and by two reports by technicians from the Service for Sustainable Development and the Fight Against Climate Change.
The president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, already indicated in January that in these reports it is clearly explained that in this tender “there has never been space for incineration, because it is expressly excluded”, making it clear, in addition, that “it complies with European regulations, with national legislation, with the regulations of the Autonomous Community and, of course, with the Waste Plan of the island of Tenerife”.
The Minister for Sustainable Development and the Fight Against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez Medina, pointed out that “Tenerife will take a step forward in waste management, because it is the beginning of the change in the obsolete and outdated model that continues to operate on the island, And that is clearly unsustainable. The counselor pointed out that, “after all the controversy generated from little contrasted and interested information, it has been possible to carry out the tender and, thanks to this, more than 130,000 tons of waste per year will no longer be buried to obtain new resources” .
