One of the negative effects of the wind in the Arico Environmental Complex is the blown up plastic. José Carlos Herrero, mountain guide and environmental educator, found a large accumulation of this type of waste in a privately owned pond located in the vicinity of the island dump. A fact that you consider “specific” that was corrected with some speed by the area of Sustainable Development and Fight against Climate Change of the Council of Tenerife.
Herrero is concerned about “the loss of habitat” of the migratory birds that come to this pond and this area every year. In fact, on the excursion in which he detected this environmental impact, he verified the absence of birds that he used to see in the place: Little Plover, White Wagtail and Cinnamon Squirrel, although there were two specimens of the latter.
The blasting of plastics from the island landfill is a problem that has been reported since the last century. The height reached by the cell in which the garbage is deposited in the Environmental Complex favors this contamination that the No Incineration Tenerife collective already exposed in 2019 and that not only affects the pond, but also the entire agricultural environment of the area, they point out. the complainants.
