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A heated march calls for the cessation of the Zubieta incinerator on Saturday
  • Organized by the Incineration Control Movement with the support of many agents, a heated march brought together the incinerator of Lasarte-Oria and Zubieta on Saturday.
Usurbilgo Noaua @noaua 2022ko maiatzaren 16a
Martxa Zubietarantz Lasarte-Orian barrena. (Argazkia: Noaua)

Their aim was to stop the incinerator and uncover what they do not tell us with the Zubieta plant, the revolving march that the Anti-Incinerator Movement organized for this Saturday. "Stop the incinerator! The participants of the mobilization started from the perspective of "changing the system, not the climate". He crossed the town centre to Bugati. Along the way, a key question was asked, "What about the incinerator? ".

At the appearance of the organization to announce this march last week they announced that various aspects related to the infrastructure of the Zubieta High are being concealed. During the march, there were screams to make this altar, and that of the banner, the incinerator. The protesters were carrying banderoles at the incinerator.

He departed from Plaza Okendo de Lasarte-Oria, a mobilization impregnated with music. The starting point was interpreted by the usurbildarras in the same place. And the way, as you can see in these images, Orio's txarangas.

They closed the way to the incinerator to those who were on the go

"They force us to end here." These were the words of the organization, when they were unable to reach the goal with a march announced against the incinerator that kicked off Saturday from Lasarte-Oria.

The march organised by the Incineration Control Movement on Saturday with the support of a number of actors was unable to achieve the intended objective. The participants of the mobilization who left the Okendo de Lasarte-Oria square closed the way. The organization reported that they had requested authorization to go to the incinerator area. "The thing is, they haven't answered us." The aforementioned permits have already been requested and from the area where the road was closed, the convoys of the march reported that "when we have made these types of requests and the administration has not answered it is supposed that the request has been approved". In this case, they didn't, "force us to end here."

Between the screams against txistu and incineration, they were unable to reach the end. In the same area where the road was closed, these two statements were made public. Next, a reading of the situation they did at the end:

"They don't tell us the truth."

Thanks to those who have made the way here from Lasarte. Although we have said it a thousand times, we want to remember the essence of Zubieta’s crime. Burning waste is a crime, a crime for the health of us and our descendants. A crime that pollutes the environment. It is a crime against the climate that we are already mad about. A crime that debt us for many years.

Waste incineration is barbaric when there is a better, cleaner and cheaper alternative than incineration. Friends, here by your side is underway, Zubieta's big black hole. This monster imposed on Gipuzkoan citizenship. Unfortunately, this is happening every day, if the disaster we announced a thousand times earlier was not enough, both the managers of the incinerator and the authorities that should act as representatives of the citizens, such as the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, the Basque Government hide the traces of this disaster. This is what we want to denounce in a protest organised by the Incineration Movement, with the support of Eguzki, Ekologistak Martxan, Donostia Bizirik and Greenpeace. They don't tell us the truth.

What do they not tell us about the Zubieta incinerator? They don't tell us how much CO2 emits into the air, how much of that CO2 that is making the climate go crazy. They do not tell us how many slag poison comes out of the furnaces in Zubieta, nor what they do with them. In the same way, they do not tell us what they do with the toxic powders that are left in the filters of the chimneys. Despite the figures mentioned by our authorities, it is concealed that last year, in 2021, 90,000 tonnes of recyclable waste was burned in our furnaces. Among them, 60,000 tons of organics that served to get the excellent compost that our land needs. Yes, 65 percent of what's burned in the furnaces here is actually recyclable. It's not embarrassing.

Is change not analyzable and feasible? Mention should be made of the barbarity that is being done here with organic waste. When everyone is concerned about the reduction and increase in food, about the reduction and increase in agricultural chemical fertilizers, when everyone is concerned about the ever-decreasing amount of organic matter in our lands. The Gipuzkoan authorities, by joining the waste lobby, waste our organic waste that serves to make a top quality compost.

Then these authorities in the PSE and the PNV and the waste industry fill their mouths without shame with transitions, ecology and anything. They spend a lot of money on communications, advertising and propaganda to whitewash and green the huge infrastructures built in Zubieta. They use the circular economy from word to mouth. They talk about the need to deal with the looming climate and the energy crisis. But they want to hide from the public that the waste model they promote in reality is wasteful. An energy that wastes public money and the health of citizens. The rulers say a circular economy, which is what is actually circular in their model, the way to get public funds into their pockets.

From here, from Zubieta we appeal to the main authorities in Gipuzkoa and to the managers of the incinerator, to stop this criminal incinerator. Open waste management systems all over Gipuzkoa. Respect the health and welfare rights of today's and tomorrow's citizens.

No, no, no, no incineration!

There's an alternative, it's time to hold on and resist.

The women and men who are part of the Anti-incineration Movement want from here, from the portal of this corrupt incinerator in Zubieta, to acknowledge our thanks to the citizens, municipalities and communities who try to manage their waste well throughout Gipuzkoa. Keep this path. On the other hand, the citizens, the municipalities and the communities that are not yet doing so call our attention: it is time for everyone to take responsibility for their waste. Don't be discarded and don't be embarrassed. The citizens of Gipuzkoa asked the municipalities and communities for proper waste management and not to send their waste to the Zubieta incinerator. Don't feed this burning monster. We look at our children and our children's. The consequences of every thing we do wrong will suffer them. They will have to pay our debts, their health will suffer the diseases caused by our negligence. They will have to live, suffering the disasters of an increasingly insane climate. Fortunately, there is an alternative. Among all of us, we will succeed in doing our part. No, no, no, no incineration!