He Council of Tenerife will install 52 community composting points in twelve of the 31 municipalities of Tenerife. The project will contemplate an investment of just over half a million euros and the municipalities involved have already been asked to have the necessary spaces for the installation of waste collection points.
The Island Corporation undertakes this measure through the area of Sustainable Development and Fight Against Climate Change. It consists, specifically, in the opening of a tender for the installation of these points. Specifically, 528,503 euros will be allocated to this administrative process.
The councilor of the area, the socialist Javier Rodríguez Medina, assesses: «In Tenerife We generate more than one and a half million kilos of waste per day, and approximately half corresponds to organic matter”. This is the reason, he explains, “why the municipalities have to begin to massively deploy the fifth container.”
Rodríguez Medina indicates in this regard that “we do not want to sit idly by and wait and for this reason we launch projects like this that are already generating a culture of both recycling and recovery in the transformation of organic matter.”
This initiative is part of the project Circular communities oriented to the recycling at source of bio-waste through its domestic and community composting which will be carried out in collaboration with the municipalities of Arico, Arona, Buenavista de Norte, Candelaria, Granadilla de Abona, La Laguna, La Matanza de Acentejo, La Orotava, Puerto de la Cruz, Tacoronte, Vilaflor de Chasna and Santiago del Teide.
The initiative is part of the project aimed at recycling bio-waste at source
This project includes other actions for a total amount of €1,332,993, among which are included the drafting of the projects; the supply and installation of compost bins; the technical direction of the existing ones, as well as the training and community revitalization to encourage citizen participation.
The aforementioned compost bins will be used for the integral management of bio-waste through community composting, which would obviously benefit the inhabitants of the municipalities because this would contribute to a reduction of organic waste generated on the Island of Tenerife, in addition to the use of the resulting compost.
It is estimated that almost half of the waste generated in homes is organic wastemostly food.
Home composting is a way of treating this waste based on a controlled process of natural decomposition that mimics the life cycle that occurs spontaneously in nature. With this process, the amount of waste that is dumped into the collection system is reduced, and with it the environmental impact that these processes –collection and treatment– generate.
reduction and recycling
The purpose of these new facilities is to promote the reduction of waste to promote its recycling, as well as reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. In the current phase, the respective town councils are asked for their approval for the installation of these composting points.
Councilor Rodríguez Medina points out that “although it is a project that has a large component of sustainable waste management, it also comes with a social variable because it allows for the gradual creation of intense awareness, linked to the sustainable management of what we throw away. Organic waste will be, from the development of these infrastructures. transformed into compost to be used in the primary sector or in the gardening even of the people involved. Therefore, circular economy in its purest form.
The action is 90% financed by the call for subsidies intended to support the implementation of the waste regulations that are framed in the development of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
