Javier Rodríguez Medina, Minister of Sustainable Development and Fight Against Climate Change, appeared, at the request of CC, in an extraordinary plenary session to defend his gManagement in the rehabilitation of the packaging plant of the Environmental Complex of Tenerife (CAT), in Arico.
Rodríguez Medina had his almost usual riff-raff with the nationalist Blanca Pérez. She and Valentín González, from the PP, blamed the emergency of the work, “two years before the pandemic” and when there was an agreement with the Ecoembes company that would have meant almost free of charge. The latter was denied by the counselor.
The socialist’s argument is that “now they recycle 76,000 tons of waste but it seems that this annoys the opposition». Both Rodríguez Medina and the president, Pedro Martín, endorse the work as “one more link in the chain of ending 35 years of burying garbage on the Island.”
The only coincidence between all the actors is that “the future passes through separation at the origin.” There plays an important role council to support municipalities in install the fifth container, the organic one. He has only done it in all Canary Islands (88 municipalities) that of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The counselor assures that “steps” have been taken, such as the removal of 8,000 tons of tires from the Complex. He gives a piece of information: the price of the treatment was 222 euros per ton with the manual process. The automation undertaken makes it cheaper to 13.5.
Blanca Pérez quantified the losses due to poor management at the plant at 1,745,000 euros. She brought the ghost back from the incineration at the recycling plot. She denied it once again Rodríguez Medina based on the reports requested from the UL and the Sustainable Development area of the Cabildo.
María José Belda, spokesperson for Sí Podemos Canarias, insisted on her commitment to recycling and separation at source as the future for waste management on the island.
