The Director General of Environmental Quality, Joan Piquer, together with the president of the Waste Consortium of Zone 11 A6 of Vega Baja, Manuel Pineda, have met with representatives of the Neighborhood Association of Torremendo to inform them of the latest advances in A consortium entity, on the way to the management of waste management in the region.

Piquer clarified to the representatives of Torremendo the criteria to decide the location of the transfer plants, whose installation is planned in Guardamar and Orihuela. The director general asked the members of the collective to be involved in the regional management of waste, as well as collaborate with the goal that neighbors and members of civic associations can know the facilities that operate in different parts of the Valencian Community, With the purpose of demystifying the damages on the operation of facilities “.

“I do not want anything for Vega Baja that can not be taught, touched or smelled,” he said. An affirmation that they received with great relief the representatives of the neighbors of the oriolana pedanía. Piquer and Pineda scorned the creation of landfills in the region, while the representatives of the neighbors set an example of recycling policies, both in glass and paper and cardboard. In fact, they requested co-responsibility so that all those municipalities “that look at us, realize how we solve the problem”. On the plants said that with all facilities compromised, instead of the twenty trucks that now arrive at other landfills only four trailers will arrive.

First phase

With respect to the works that will begin to be developed, Piquer explained that phase 1 of sealing and assuring the landfill, as well as the removal of leachate in La Murada, will be done by the Generalitat, although it clarified that the judicial proceeding is proceeding against the authors Of alleged environmental crimes. The director general pointed out that the governments of Murcia and Valencia already work together to assess the damage caused and solve them.

As for the management projects, with the technical bases approved at the beginning of the week, the main lines of development will be marked, which do not include incineration and which will minimize the rejection rates. It will be an indispensable condition for the installation to go to qualified soils that allow this activity.

Piquer asked the local representatives “fortitude” to withstand the criticisms that, in his opinion, “are inherent in any transformation.”

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