The Council regains the mechanical treatment plant of the Environmental Complex of Tenerife after three months of inactivity. The infrastructure, affected by a fire in its electrical system last April, will be operational by the end of this month. This is one of the main conclusions of the recent visit by the Monitoring Commission of the Tenerife Special Waste Territorial Plan (PTEOR) to the facilities of the Island’s Environmental Complex, located in Arico. This was explained by the Minister of Natural Environment, Sustainability and Safety and Emergencies, Blanca Pérez, and the Insular Waste Director, Alejandro Molowny, during the meeting of the body created earlier this year.
Blanca Pérez highlights the effort to rapidly restore the control panel and electrical systems of the plant, “which has not been easy given that it is a very advanced and complex infrastructure”.
It is expected that the panel will be operational by the end of the month, so the plant will restart and with it, normality will return to the treatment systems of the Environmental Complex. Pérez adds: “We are talking about an effort from the entire technical and administrative team to ensure that the plant resumes operation in just three months”. In addition, the minister emphasizes: “We have taken advantage of this downtime to advance planned improvements and to update the equipment and control panels”.
The Insular Waste Director, Alejandro Molowny, on his part, highlighted the work done and the new design that the plant will have. He was in charge of guiding the visit made by members of the PTEOR Monitoring Commission.
Molowny explained that, along with the recovery work on the mechanical treatment plant, “we have continued working and progressing in the drafting and approval of the projects that will be carried out at the Tenerife Environmental Complex and at the Island’s logistics centres”. He emphasized “the execution of the waste management services contract awarded to the Nivaria UTE”.
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During the meeting of the Monitoring Commission, the priority actions to be carried out soon were explained, such as those of the sludge drying plant, the leachate treatment plant – liquid substances that flow among the waste in landfills – and other urbanization works in the Environmental Complex itself, as well as improvements in the logistics centres or the ongoing work at the CAT recycling point.
