It will replace the previous one, which has been in operation for the last decade, and has a capacity of 2.8 million cubic meters, four times more than the old one.
The garbage from a dozen municipalities will end up in the new waste glass landfill Lorca, released yesterday and that, with 2.8 million cubic meters of capacity, may remain operational for the next forty years. It is the third to be opened in the waste management center (CGR) that has the municipal cleaning company Limusa in the area of Barranco Hondo.
The new cell and the adequacy of its environment in the CGR has cost 4.4 million euros, from the profits of Limusa, said yesterday the mayor, Fulgencio Gil, during the inauguration of the facilities. The mayor stressed that the new glass four times the capacity of the previous and will be a more efficient 55%. The infrastructure places the municipality in the "forefront of treatment and management of municipal solid waste," said the councilman.
Having this vessel will prevent the transfer of non-recoverable waste to other treatment centers and will mean a saving for the municipal coffers of 5.8 million euros. "It is the most ambitious investment in waste recovery and treatment that has been made so far in the municipality," added Gil. In the new deposit "the greatest possible environmental safety measures" have been adopted and, in addition to the waterproofing, elements have been installed for the extraction and management of leachates and for the collection and channeling of rainwater runoff.
Accesses and ditches
Vessel number two has been in operation for ten years and has now been definitively sealed. To do this, an area of 55,800 square meters had to be covered with an impermeable mineral barrier and an artificial drainage system to extract the leachates. Everything has been covered with a layer of topsoil one meter thick. The works have also included improvements to the accesses and ditches. A total of 18,000 square meters of land have been asphalted, almost 9,000 cypress trees have been planted and a rainwater tank with a capacity of 24,000 cubic meters has been built to guarantee irrigation water. In addition, a 250-square-meter office building has been erected, in which six people will work.
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