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The waste treatment center located in the Murcian district of Cañada Hermosa has received during the 2018-2019 school year, a total of 4,453 students from 108 schools in the municipality of Murcia to know in situ the process applied to waste.
This installation has also been visited in this period by more than 1,000 people belonging to different groups.
The Councilor for Sustainable Mobility and Youth, Rebeca Pérez, has indicated that "in these facilities all waste received is treated by applying processes for its reduction, reuse, recycling, disposal and recovery of the same with advanced technology"
The center opens its doors not only to schools, but to all profiles of society, to involve citizens towards an active participation in the treatment and recycling of waste.
Pérez explained that "the visualization in real time of the whole process, from the moment the truck unloads in the pit, to the classification processes and finally the vision of the bullets with each material already classified, prepared for transport to the different factories of recycling, positively impacts students and other groups that visit it, thus checking that prior separation at home or at school is important. "
This open-door campaign that year after year develops the City of Murcia and Ferrovial Services about the reality of waste to understand the management that is carried out in the minimization of the problem that today produces waste, as well as to verify the magnitude and the volume of waste generated, and the efforts made to reduce its impacts.
The treatment center located in the Murcian district of Cañada Hermosa, about 18 kilometers from Murcia, welcomes the participants of this activity in an old mill restored as an environmental classroom.
Also within the facility itself, a walkway with huge windows built for group visits to the facilities, allows, in a safe way, to learn about the specific management that is carried out, the functions, the commitments and the objectives of the plant.
In this way, the plant itself becomes an environmental education center that helps to adopt concepts, attitudes and processes related to waste.
In addition, the visit also manages to change the point of view on garbage, both for the work that is done to recover the raw material, and for the actual volume they occupy.
The councilor has pointed out that "learn to know our waste, where they come from, raw materials that form it and the possible uses they may have once recycled is essential to create a true habit that changes the tendency to use and throw away, to assess better what we have, learn to be responsible consumers and practice the waste of waste: Rethink, Reflect, Reduce, Repair, Reuse and Recycle that bring us in the habits of our daily lives to the guidelines set by the Circular Economy, where premium the motto convert our waste into resources. "
The first part of this view is carried out in the Almazara, which has been converted into an environmental classroom, taking advantage of the elements that from this ancient trade related to oil were made there.
After the previous questions to get to know the group and their knowledge, habits, related to waste, a general explanation of basic concepts about the waste we throw away daily, management, treatment, etc. is made.
as well as the need for collaboration of all people.
Before the visit, the importance of waste is stressed: where does the things that are purchased (raw materials, water, energy) come from, what is needed to produce it, or where those things that are ultimately disposed of will end up.
This talk is essential to understand all the treatment and technology that is applied daily to our waste, as well as the new concept of Circular Economy.
After the talk, the guided tour begins in 'The train of waste' through the different facilities that make up this treatment center.
o MSW Treatment Plant and Packaging.
o Secure deposit of rejection.
o Biogas Plant
o Composting plant.
o Mud drying plant.
o Biomethanization plant for agricultural waste
o VFU and RAAE plant
Through this route, the different treatments applied to more than 15 types of waste that are treated in this installation are checked and the use of renewable energy is visualized, both solar in sludge drying and that obtained with biogas, resulting from the rejections stored in the safe deposit used for the production of electrical energy in the biogas plant.
The most important stop is made in the treatment plant of the container of rest and of containers to see from the unloading of the truck, octopus crane that introduces the waste to the treatment, tromel, until the exit of residues, well to the compactors for their unloading in the safe deposit or, in the case of packaging, the collection of bullets of the different fractions obtained from the yellow container.
PET PEAD, Brick, cans, bags ...
This image of the process is what most attracts the visitor's attention.
Bullets of packaging waste prepared for transport to recycling factories, classified according to their composition.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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