The project will convert the Waste Treatment Centre Cañada Hermosa and its environment in a new area of ​​research, innovation and opportunity, with 300 companies.
The cluster is a strategic initiative that was founded with the objective of promoting wealth and create nearly 4,000 jobs.
The implementation of the "Recycling Town" promoted by the City and Murcia Cespa the municipality become a national and international reference in sustainability and environment, not to mention the effect it will have on the local economy and job creation.
The departments of Urban Cleaning and Waste Management, led by José Ros, and Employment, Trade and Enterprise, owned by José María Tortosa, have led today the introduction of strategic development of the reference cluster environment and renewable energies in Canada Hermosa.
Located near the center of municipal waste Cañada Hermosa, previous studies estimated at over one hundred companies located in the Region of Murcia, with a turnover exceeding 600 million euros related to water management waste and energy that might be interested in participating in this initiative, which comes with a private-public vocation.
Thus, the City will play a conciliatory role of promoter and wills and projects, giving prominence to the companies.
The cluster will mark the birth of a new area of ​​innovation, research and opportunity, with a vocation to foster the creation and consolidation of companies.
The ultimate goal is to foster wealth and job creation.
Its implementation represents one of the most important actions that will develop the Government Team of the City of Murcia in the current legislature.
It aims to implement a clear environmental efficiency initiative, to help strengthen the municipality's economic activity, encourage technological innovation and, above all, promote the creation of jobs in the municipality.
It will accommodate different types of industries.
On the one hand, dedicated to the use of waste and manufacturing byproducts, which include companies linked to the treatment of plastic, paper or glass, which currently collects selectively Murcia but whose use process and get out of Murcia.
In the future, will correct this situation and the economic benefit will not leave the town.
But they can also have their space waste companies that are not addressed, such as waste arriving at the Ecopark (oil, batteries, fluorescent X-rays, etc..), And certain industries that by their activity, have difficulty finding a suitable location.
The cluster will have different areas, including industrial, business, R & D + I (research labs), academic conference-hotel building, residence, plant selection of Waste Electrical and Electronic, water purification and area energy recovery, biomass plants.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia