Madrid City Council Decides to Close the Incinerator of Valdemingomez

Madrid’s city council has announced that it will close the controversial Valdemingomez incinerator in 2025. On the way to this, Madrid will reduce the amount of waste that is incinerated to 50% by 2022.

Urte luzez mobilizatu dira Valdemingomezko erraustegiaren aurka, batik bat hurbil bizi diren Rivas-Vaciamadriden.

The news was announced in the morning of Wednesday (28) under the leadership of Mayor Manuela Carmena (Ahora Madrid-Podemos) The Councilor for the Environment, Inés Sabanes (Equo), anticipated in the presentation of the new waste plan and immediately spread as in the media on social networks.

The details of the decision of the Madrid City Council can be heard here in the mouth of Councilman Sabanes:

@isabanes has explained how he is currently carrying out the reduction of a 50% reduction of the incineration and the posterior cierre of the central waste of Valdemingómez, an indication of the vecinos and vecinas that will also be allowed to advance the limit in sustainability. pic.twitter.com/IbWJ96tUEZ
— Ahora Madrid (@AhoraMadrid) June 28, 2018

The Valdemingomez incinerator is also popular in the Basque Country, where affected citizens have been here several times telling their experience. The testimony of Clara Peralas, who suffers the Chancellor, is still remembered by many: