SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 9 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Sustainable Development and Fight against Climate Change area of the Cabildo de Tenerife has included in the Strategic Subsidy Plan for the 2023 financial year a new line of aid to municipalities for carrying out a census to identify and locate those facilities and locations in which there is asbestos, which includes a calendar that plans its removal.
In a statement, the Island Corporation explained that these subsidies, under a competitive bidding regime, were approved at the last Island Government Council, with a budget of 387,500 euros to be distributed among the municipalities that request it.
The new Law 7/2022, of April 8, on waste and contaminated soils for a circular economy, establishes as one of its general objectives the reduction of waste generation and management in favor of human health and the environment, as well as raising awareness about the problem of the use of asbestos and the need to locate and dismantle the infrastructures or facilities that still contain it, strengthening the prevention of hazardous household waste by including measures to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Likewise, the aforementioned Law requires that within one year from the entry into force of the law, the municipalities will prepare a census of installations and sites with asbestos, including a calendar that plans its removal.
Therefore, both the census and the calendar, which will be public, will be sent to the competent health, environmental and labor authorities of the autonomous communities, which must be inspected to verify, respectively, that they have been withdrawn and sent to an authorized manager. .
This withdrawal will prioritize the facilities and locations according to their degree of danger and exposure to the most vulnerable population. In any case, the public facilities or locations with the highest risk must be managed before 2028.
