A pilot project promotes the installation of the fifth container, the one destined for organic and brown waste, in the six municipalities of the Northeast region of the Island. United as a community, they add up to 83,300 potential users. This container is a key factor in recycling garbage. The collection of domestic bio-waste will begin in limited areas of the six towns with a controlled opening of the neighbors by card.
The House of Culture of El Rosario hosted the presentation of the initiative to establish the collection of bio-waste of domestic origin in the municipalities that are members of the Commonwealth of the Northeast: El Rosario (1,370 inhabitants), Tacoronte (24,134), El Sauzal (8,934) , La Matanza de Acentejo (9,061), La Victoria de Acentejo (9,185) and Santa Úrsula (14,679).
The president of the Commonwealth of the Northeast and mayor of El Rosario, Escolástico Gil; explains that through this pilot project “restricted access containers will be placed for those neighbors who join the initiative.” The objective, recalls the mayor of Rosario, “is to make our municipalities more sustainable and respectful with the environment.”
Through this pilot experience, the collection of the bio-waste fraction of household waste will be carried out by means of a fifth container with a controlled opening system in delimited territorial areas of each municipality. Specifically, they will be Costanera (El Rosario), Jardín del Sol (Tacoronte), Los Ángeles (El Sauzal), Risco el Perro and Acentejo Street (La Matanza de Acentejo), La Palmita urbanization (La Victoria de Acentejo) and El Chapatal (Santa Ursula).
The person in charge of Sinpromi, Bernardo de la Rosa, stresses that this initiative “has the full support of the Cabildo, through Tenerife more Sustainable”. He highlights that “60% of the composters that are part of the insular community composting project are spread over these six municipalities.”
The manager of the Commonwealth, Carlos Pego, details that this project is financed by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.
Finally, Federico González, representative of Urbaser, explains that the containers will be opened by card and will be distributed to users committed to separating organic matter in their homes. The data will be registered in a geographic information system.
The project will have environmental educators who will contact potential users directly to inform them. They will deliver, in addition to the container access card, compostable bags and a bucket to separate the organic fraction.
