SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 15. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife has put on public display the projects to install eight new collection points in the municipalities of La Laguna, Fasnia, Arico, Granadilla de Abona, San Miguel, Vilaflor de Chasna, Guía de Isora and Tegueste. The deadline to submit claims to these projects is 20 business days.
Prior to this publication, the insular Institution has contacted the aforementioned town halls to request the transfer of the land necessary for the construction of these new infrastructures.
The execution of these eight collection points contemplates a total budget of 5.7 million euros, which will be 90% financed with European Next Generation funds for the implementation of waste regulations within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. .
The project also includes various improvement works in another five clean points that are already operational.
The Clean Point projected in Los Rodeos, La Laguna, entails an investment of 569,678 euros. Its installation will make it possible to reinforce the metropolitan area, the one with the greatest potential growth, in which there are currently two clean points, in Jagua and Taco.
With regard to the Southeast region, two infrastructures of this type are planned, in areas close to the coastal population centers with development expectations. One of them in the Arico Environmental Complex (571,428 euros), and the second in Las Eras, in the municipality of Fasnia (478,510 euros).
In the Abona region, it is also planned to install two collection points: in San Miguel de Abona (Las Chafiras), with a budget of 563,194 euros; and in Granadilla de Abona, in the area of the CoCarmen cooperative (583,124 euros), which will join the one that already exists in Arona (Malpaso), on the access road to Cabo Blanco.
In addition, a third clean point will be located in Vilaflor de Chasna, halfway between the two main nuclei, Vilaflor and La Escalona, for which a budget of 627,624 euros is expected.
In the Southwest region, the Armeñime clean point, Adeje, will be joined by another one in Playa San Juan (529,969 euros), in the municipality of Guía de Isora, serving the western part of the municipality, as well as Santiago del Teide.
Likewise, it is proposed to locate a clean point in the municipality of Tegueste (429,048 euros).
As head of the Public Service for the Management of Urban and Assimilated Waste on the island, the Cabildo de Tenerife is responsible for the management of the Environmental Complex of Tenerife, in the municipality of Arico, it also has four Logistics Centers, located in La Guancha, Villa of La Orotava, Arona and El Rosario, and of eight Clean Points, located in Buenavista del Norte, La Guancha, Villa de La Orotava, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Güimar, Arona and Adeje.
The Clean Points are management infrastructures where bulky containers, small rubble (<2 m3) are collected and, in general, all waste that is not collected by ordinary municipal collection services, but deposited by individuals, such as household appliances, computer equipment, used tires, rubble, bulky, etc.