SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 31. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife adds eleven new municipalities to the four already participating in the project of circular composting and vermicomposting communities, as reported by the Minister for Sustainable Development and the Fight Against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez, who promised to redouble efforts so that implanted in the rest of the municipalities of the Island.
The representatives of the municipalities of Arico, La Victoria de Acentejo, La Orotava, Icod de los Vinos, Vilaflor de Chasna, Santa Úrsula, Garachico, Granadilla de Abona, Santiago del Teide, Guía de Isora and Puerto de la Cruz have held a meeting with the councilor Javier Rodríguez to outline the roadmap for the implementation of new composting areas, in which the councilors of La Laguna and Tacoronte, who already participate in this project, also participated.
Given the success of the Circular Communities in the pilot project, initiated in 19 composting and vermicomposting areas in collaboration with the University of La Laguna and the municipalities of La Laguna, Tacoronte, Tegueste and El Rosario, Rodríguez encouraged the municipalities attending to “promote decisively, closely and jointly the start-up of new facilities for the decentralized treatment of organic waste”.
At the meeting, in which some of the different possible locations were already raised, the counselor pointed out that the Cabildo will provide the material and technical means, as well as training and advice to municipal staff for its implementation in a few months, always before the end of the year.
For their part, the city councils undertook to make the necessary public land available, as well as to encourage social participation, since these Circular Communities generate synergies in the social fabric of the municipalities, thus boosting citizen participation and awareness, in addition to having a multiplier effect in the fight against climate change to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
In combination with the fifth container, the Cabildo wants to make a firm commitment to the ‘zero kilometer’ of organic waste management so that what is generated, managed and used in the same environment, which means greatly minimizing the high environmental cost of transport and maximize the practice of the Circular Economy, since the resulting compost will end up in public urban gardens, parks and gardens, and farms of the municipality itself,” Rodríguez pointed out.
Among the 200 participating families and the small contributors (school and university canteens, markets, urban gardens…) there are already almost 600 people in four municipalities who have contributed more than 6,000 kilos of organic matter.
Pending the start-up in new municipalities, the Cabildo encourages citizens residing in La Laguna, Tegueste, Tacoronte and El Rosario to join the project through this link: https://tenerifemassostenible.tenerife.es/ambitos-tematicos/…
