Swirls of plastic ‘cover’ some areas of the Arico coast. The strong gusts of wind drag the garbage bags that wait in the Environmental Complex of Arico to be treated to the sea, where they accumulate and become the “food” of fish and turtles. In addition, the wind carries this waste to the irrigation reservoirs and ravines of the southeast area of Tenerife.
The platform Non-incinerationTenerife has just published a new entry on its website in which it denounces a situation that is not new in this area of the Island. “It is nothing new, For more than two decades we have been denouncing the same thing”, they assure from the platform to add: “Is about something completely illegal especially when we are talking about the plastics that are trapped, which is precisely the least of the problems”. “An important part of them continue heading to Passion fruit and they are dispersed throughout the environment, generating all kinds of impacts until, at a given moment, they end up in the sea when it rains and so on,” says the group.
The environmental association warns that this situation harms the environment and seriously damages the coasts that end up invaded by these plastics, and insist that this garbage favor the proliferation of insects and rats in the zone. Likewise, they point out that this fact has drawn attention after “the accumulation of plastics that has ended up in some nearby water dam” to the areas that have been recovered for cultivation.
Given this fact, environmentalists demand that the Waste Plan (PETEOR), which is articulated around seven fundamental strategic axes: The prevention and minimization of the generation of waste, the maximum selective collection of materials and their recycling, the maximum use of organic matter and the treatment prior to dumping of all waste. not selectively collected; the safe disposal of secondary waste, the creation of a public body for waste management and citizen participation, as well as the creation of the Tenerife Waste Observatory.
This newspaper contacted the Council of Tenerife who refused to make statements regarding this issue for the time being.
