SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The CC-PNC group of the Cabildo de Tenerife is going to request this Friday in the Extraordinary Plenary session that the competition for the recycling plant in the Environmental Complex be suspended and as agreed in another plenary session with the support of the PP and Sí Podemos.
“They have continued with the procedure, bypassing the agreement and trying to impose the incinerator by force. They have not been able to justify that the project presented for a biomethanization plant in which different waste is mixed is a composting plant. Neither the The president, Pedro Martín, nor the counselor, Javier Rodríguez, have ruled on the use that will be given to the gas obtained in the project presented, which will be none other than burning it. They say it will not burn, but they will. and that is to confuse the population”, explains the counselor Blanca Pérez in a note.
In his opinion, “the PSOE is not interested in saying that this incineration facility will burn the gases resulting from its process in Arico, nor are they interested in saying that this project supported by the Cabildo will compete with the island’s private recycling activity.
Thus, he points out that the adjudication with which the government group wants to continue, despite the opposition of the majority of the Plenary representation, “will not only prevent the development of recycling activity on the island but will not allow reaching the recycling objectives set by the European Union, which will mean occupying more space in the waste cells in Arico and multimillion-dollar penalties”.
Blanca Pérez also explains that the objective of a biomethanization plant “is the transformation of organic matter into gas to recover it for energy, to burn it in engines, to generate electricity or to use it in other industrial processes as a source of energy, thus becoming in incineration facilities, and the other product resulting from the project presented, the digestate, cannot be transformed into compost but into a biostabilized material whose destination will be disposal in the environmental complex’s dumping cells”.
TENERIFE, FREE OF INCINERATORS
The CC-PNC councilor also points out that “nothing in this process is considered recycling, the proposed activity is not recycling, it is not a biomethanization in which the digestate can become compost, it is an energy recovery of organic matter with the subsequent elimination in landfill of the rejections”.
The nationalist group also recalls that there is a plenary agreement on March 2, 2019 declaring the island of Tenerife as a Territory Free of Incinerators.
“It was approved by all the political groups and implies expressing the explicit resignation of this institution to incineration as a method to solve the insular management of waste, assuming the institutional commitment to deploy all the policies and all the technical measures necessary to guarantee that never becomes necessary to resort to it”, he recalls.
