A total of 3,879 students from 6th grade education, from 80 schools in the municipality, visited central processing of municipal solid waste Murcia, located in Cañada Hermosa, throughout the school year.
They are joined by more than 850 people from other municipalities, colleges and university, which has a total of 4,729 visitors who have seen firsthand the activity that takes place in this center for the recycling and treatment of waste generated Murcia.
The monitors were exposed in situ the different processes that are performed with different waste received there.
In this way, stakeholders are able to have a much clearer idea of ​​the recycling chain, environmental benefits involved and the key role they play to get the desired achievements.
School visits are intended to teach students municipal resources for treatment and final disposal of waste we generate and teach all hope from the environmentally safe solutions for waste and report the importance of selective collection with knowledge of Packaging Sorting Plant.
Also attitudes of respect and appreciation is well developed towards people who perform these jobs: All jobs are worthy and necessary for society.
At the same time, it discloses the use of clean energy with a visit to the biogas plant.
The Treatment Center include:
· Plant Sludge Drying
· Controlled Landfill
· Plant Selection RSU and Containers
· Biogas Plant
· Plant Composting of organic waste
In speeches in the classroom environmental training center MSW treatment of Cañada Hermosa, students in Primary 6 is delivered a folder with all the information relating to the treatment center and its various facilities.
The target groups are interested in knowing the steps taken in Murcia with the waste generated by the population.
Notably among these different target Secondary Schools outside the Municipality of Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia, Molina safe, Cotillas Towers) and the University of Murcia (School of Environmental Sciences), in various specialties UPTC Engineering University of Elche and Orihuela.
The Treatment Center has an old mill that was enabled as a classroom guest reception where you school and people interested in this center are detailed facility information through lectures, audiovisual, and models.
Since 1994 awareness campaigns carried out in these facilities, where more than 5,000 people annually visit.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia