SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 23 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The area of Sustainable Development and the Fight against Climate Change of the Cabildo de Tenerife has summoned the members of the monitoring commission for Waste Management on the Island of Tenerife and the Organic Fertilization Table this Wednesday and has offered a balance of the waste treatment so far this year and the impact of the new tax on waste dumping.
Thus, “of the 471,062 tons of household waste received so far this year, 401,871 tons have been processed in the mechanical-biological treatment plant for household waste, which represents an increase of 9.6% compared to the same period of 2021,” said the Councilor for the Ecological Transition of the Cabildo, Javier Rodríguez.
He also indicated that the new discharge tax is already in force and its main purpose is to record the elimination of cell discharges.
This is due, he said in a note, to the fact that “it seeks to promote the transformation of waste into new resources and works in two lines, the separation at source and the circular economy”, so the objective is to reduce to a minimum the discharged to cell
As for the balance of waste from 2022 to the month of October, at the meeting it was explained that the total household waste so far this year stood at 471,062 tons, which represents an increase of 8.91% compared to 2021. .
Of the 401,871 tons processed, 182,788 tons have been transported to the dumping cell as process rejects for treatment, and 44,806 tons of the organic fraction have been biostabilized.
Likewise, 12,459 tons of non-organic material have been recovered and subsequently delivered to registered managers for recycling or treatment.
Regarding the eight clean points, 40,891,072 tons of waste have been managed during this period (January-September 2022), producing a slight decrease compared to 2021 (39,401,098 tons) of 3.8%, while that the number of users remains at 206,309 (2022) and 208,051 (2021).
Household debris continues to be the waste that is most managed at these facilities, with 29,240.908 tons, which represents 71.5% of the total, with the Taco clean point being the one with the highest waste management with 18,110.572 tons and 74,715 registered users during this period of 2022.
