SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 27. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife and the FCC-Urbaser joint venture have materialized the signing of the new waste management contract for the Island, which will be in force until 2037, with the possibility of extending it for four more years, and which has an award budget of 397,475 .058 euros. The signing of this document formalizes the largest contract in the history of the Cabildo.
“This step, which paves the way for the execution of the new contract as of this Friday, July 1, becomes the launching pad for the Island to move towards a more sustainable model in waste management, which above all favors the circular economy and rigorously comply with all the indications of the European Union”, explained the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín.
“That is why the Cabildo is working to facilitate and pave the way for a new waste management model in which, in addition, we want the Complex to be a leading place in job creation. The current legislation on waste It must be applied in detail, and additional measures are needed for key sectors, we must open ourselves up, to the waste industry,” said the president.
Pedro Martín recalled some of the actions carried out in the current mandate, such as the removal of the 8,004 tons of out-of-use tires that accumulated throughout the Tenerife Environmental Complex (CAT), which cost 2.1 million of euros. “We have taken advantage of the pandemic to invest there in two of the facilities that were in the worst condition, which was the packaging facility, which needed a significant investment, and the reconversion of the biostabilized plant, which was almost in ruins and was one of the subjects that we had pending,” said the president.
The island councilor for Sustainable Development and the Fight against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez Medina, indicated that in this new contract “investments are planned both in the Tenerife Environmental Complex and in the different transfer plants to modernize the facilities, always with the aim to improve yields and increase recovery percentages” and foresees an investment of almost 52 million euros to be executed in the first years of execution of the contract for the expansion and improvement of the insular waste treatment infrastructures, in the same way requires the concessionaire to recover at least 42% of plastics, steel 51%, aluminum 50%, brick 38%, glass 20%, paper and cardboard 18% and WEEE 37% included in domestic waste.
On behalf of the UTE, Carlos Pérez, Director of Treatment at Urbaser, pointed out that they are approaching this contract “with great enthusiasm because it is aligned with circular economy policies, encouraging the concessionaire to reduce the amount of waste that we send to the landfill”, and Jorge Payet, general director of FCC Environment, pointed out that this contract for the company he represents is “a new challenge in the face of an important and demanding framework that is the European and Spanish framework and that we will meet by attending to all the challenges that mark us administratively and provide a completely sustainable service for the Island”.
