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Cañada Hermosa, a national reference in waste treatment (07/08/2018)

This center performs more than 20 different types of treatments.

Cañada Hermosa improves the management and treatment every year, getting new techniques such as biomethanization, which is the first plant in Spain with these characteristics.

It receives more than 400,000 thousand tons of waste per year.

The waste treatment center located in the hamlet of Cañada Hermosa Murcia, opened in 1994, and continues to expand and improve their facilities with different R & D projects, to achieve an improvement in the management and treatment of waste.

Specifically, in 2014, it launched 6 new plants that integrate more than 20 types of waste treatment, making it one of the reference centers in Spain.

Currently has 65 workers on staff.

The aim of this center is to treat all waste produced by Murcia applying processes for their reduction, reuse, recycling, disposal and recovery of them with advanced technology.

"The center opens its doors to involve society towards active participation in the consumption and recycling of waste, which has been a key factor in the rise of data regarding the selective collection of packaging," said the Councilor for Infrastructure, Public Works and Services, Rebeca Pérez who visited the center this morning.

It receives more than 400,000 tons of waste per year and in the first half of 2018 the collection of light, plastic, metal and brick containers has increased by 9%.

The biomethanization plant, the first in Spain

This treatment center, located in the hamlet of Cañada Hermosa Murcia, about 18 kilometers from the center of our city, incorporates improvements in its facilities being a national reference.

This is the case of the biomethanization plant that allows the generation of biogas for its valorization in the treatment center.

It has the capacity to treat 10,000 tons of organic matter or agrifood products and will produce one million cubic meters of biogas per year, which will be used to generate electricity or dry beer bagasse.

This plant is the first in Spain of these characteristics and has the backing of the Ministry of Economy for its high innovation character.

There is also a sludge drying plant from the Wastewater Treatment Plant, reducing it to 80% that is used for composting.

In addition, it works with solar energy betting on renewable energies.

The biogas plant, which controls the emission of gases from the landfill, supplies the entire treatment center and the city, through its integration into the municipal electricity grid.

Other facilities are a controlled landfill, where the components of the daily trash that can not be used are deposited and the waste treatment plant for electrical and electronic equipment, as well as vehicles that are not in use.

The composting plant is responsible for the treatment of organic matter to give it a second life as organic fertilizer.

Bulky waste, which is collected through a special service, is transformed, recovered or used as an alternative fuel in co-combustion facilities.

This plant has a treatment capacity of 20 tons per hour, which will be progressively increased to 40 tons in 2031.

And finally, the treatment plant of the rest fraction and packaging, destined to the waste of the selective collection of the green and yellow containers.

With this new plant has increased the capacity of waste treatment, doubling the rest and tripling the packaging, to meet the current and future needs of the population of the municipality of Murcia.

Cañada Hermosa, an open center for all Murcians

The campaign 'Open Doors' developed by the City of Murcia and Ferrovial Services allows all citizens to see first hand the treatment that is done to waste.

During the 2017-2018 school year, almost 5,000 students belonging to 116 schools in the municipality of Murcia participated in these guided visits.

To this data we must add the 975 visitors belonging to schools in other municipalities.

"In this way, the plant itself becomes a center of environmental education that helps to adopt concepts, attitudes and processes related to waste," added Rebeca Pérez.

"Learning to know our waste, where it comes from, the raw materials that make it up and the possible uses it may have once it is recycled is essential to create a true habit that changes the tendency to use and throw away, to make responsible consumption "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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