The Aragonese community advances in sustainability with the launch of a new plan which aims reduce waste generation and advance recycling of all those that end up in landfills.
They are the two key premises on which the Aragon Comprehensive Waste Management Plan, Prevention and Circular Economy 2024-2030known as Plan GIRAPEC), with which progress is made in the move from a linear economy to a circular economy.
The plan, which is now subject to public information, sets clear objectives such as achieve 60% recycling by 2026 and reduce household waste taken to landfill by 20% in 2030as explained by the Minister of the Environment of the Government of Aragon, Manuel Blasco.
The plan, which It is expected to be approved next year and which will be in force until 2030, responds to the new European regulations and guidelines in order to “pollute less and generate an economy around the circular economy”, adds Blasco, who has stressed that “a new wide range of economic possibilities for recycling consumer goods“In addition, it is also intended that products, especially from the industrial sector, are already recyclable to reduce waste, so that the plan will not only focus on recycling and recovery. This is to anticipate the objective of “landfill zero”.
With a financial envelope already of 40 million euros, the plan will have funds from the different administrations involved, apart from European funds (Feder and Next Generation) and with the public-private collaborationsince it is a path that “we all have to follow: companies, administration or consumers”, among others, emphasizes the general director of Environmental Quality, María Martínez. In this sense, there will be no financing problems on the part of the Government of Aragon because it wants to avoid “having to pay European sanctions for not meeting the objectives,” Blasco asserts.
The plan, which will be applied to waste with public responsibilityis thus articulated around a series of objectives, following European regulations and the waste framework directive that impose the guidelines to follow and Law 7/2022 on waste and contaminated soils for a circular economy.
Among them, the prevention and generation of waste stands out, the promotion of the circular economy, prevention and preparation for reuse and recycling, separate collection of high quality from source and the reduction of waste to landfill. Likewise, a sufficient waste management network will be guaranteed. It is also about providing transparency and economic sustainability to integrate participation.
This line follows the hierarchical waste pyramid in which these aspects acquire from greater to lesser importance: prevention, preparation for reuse of recycling, recovery and elimination.
Among the measures that will be carried out within this plan, which will be executed annually, are two treatment plants for waste prior to disposalwhich will be installed in Huesca and Teruel, which lack this type of infrastructure, as well as three transfer stations which will be located in towns such as Alcañiz or Barbastro.
They will also undertake 15 waste treatment plants in a small territory and around 200 new clean points so that all regions can have these facilities, as well as mobile clean points. In addition, action will be taken in those landfills that have reached the end of their life.
However, “it is not an infrastructure plan. It is a philosophy and organization of everything. It is a comprehensive strategy,” explains the head of the Environmental Planning service, Óscar Fayanás, who adds that it is also planned to extend the brown container for organic waste. In fact, this plan is a structural change in the way in which the Aragonese community manages its waste.
The situation in Aragon
The latest data available suggests that Aragón, in reducing the generation of municipal waste, has already achieved a reduction in the generation of municipal waste in 2022. 6.3%compared to 2010, although the goal is to reach 13% in 2025.
Regarding municipal waste recycling objectives, the Aragonese community has achieved a 38% in 2022, although the directive requires 50% in 2020 and 55% in 2025.
Regarding municipal waste destined for landfill in relation to that generated, the community has a 62%a percentage that must be reduced by 45% in 2025 and reach less than 20% in 2030.
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