It’s a statement, The formation asks the corporation to reverse the tender for the private exploitation of a plot of the Arico Environmental Complex (CAT).
With this, he wields “they intend to develop an installation for the application of thermal processes (pyrolysis, gasification and plasma) without sufficient demonstrated efficacy to support this decision.”
Yes We Can Canarias criticizes the intention to use technologies to apply high temperatures to the waste, and maintains that “for practical purposes” it would be like “a kind of covert incinerator”.
The group claims to be investigating, “and although it seems that it complies with the law and is not directly linked to incineration,” the mechanisms involved in these thermal processes do present their own signs.
The training also recalls that in March 2019 the Cabildo de Tenerife, at the proposal of the PSOE, institutionally agreed to renounce the incineration of waste.
He also insists that in the programmatic agreements signed between his group and the PSOE at the beginning of the mandate, for the investiture of the PSOE as a government team together with Ciudadanos (Cs), it was included that Tenerife should be a territory free of incinerators of waste.
The political group defends that the only way to continue advancing towards optimal waste management is to continue influencing recycling and waste separation, “instead of coming with thermal treatment projects whose effectiveness has not been sufficiently demonstrated.”
In the opinion of Sí Podemos Canarias, these heat treatments do not respond to the demands of green and sustainable policies “for the island model that we want and demand.”
The training does not understand that the possibility of using this type of technology is “even” questioned, when “not even” the previous steps have been taken “correctly” to promote and continue raising awareness about the separation of waste at source, recycling and the non-consumption of unnecessary products or materials.
“Both from what was agreed from our political group, as well as the demands of the European Union, the solutions must inevitably go through reducing the generation of waste and recycling,” he says.
Sí Podemos Canarias also emphasizes that this “misguided” bet will not change either “the seriousness of the fact that it could be betting on bringing waste from the smaller islands of the province to Tenerife by boat”, which would also contribute to have high levels of accumulated waste.
In relation to this, the insular group considers that the seven Cabildos should be part of a common solution.
In addition, “we have another fundamental problem, given that the 88 municipalities of the Archipelago have not even managed to approach the objectives set by the Law on waste management, so we will start paying millionaire fines from 2022.”
For Sí Podemos Canarias it is “very worrying” that the area of Sustainable Development and Fight Against Climate Change of the Cabildo de Tenerife does not have a defined roadmap or waste planning.
For all this, the island group demands that the government group abide by what was signed in the programmatic agreement with the PSOE, and “get to work” on solutions adapted to compliance with the law, the circular economy and the general benefit of the island.
