They denounce the intention to install an incinerator in Zumarraga
- The company Plastic Energy sees with "a great deal of concern" the intention to install a chemical recycling plant for plastic waste in Zumarraga. platforms. It emphasizes that pyrolysis releases chemical pollutants harmful to health and that it is "negligence" to place them a few meters from the houses and the city center. He invited to attend the briefing on 3 May at 19:00 at the Zumarraga House of Culture.
Urretxu-Zumarraga Bizi! The platform denounces the "plastic incinerator" they want to implant in the municipality and clarifies that this plant, through a "chemical recovery system", burns plastic waste and converts it to other substances.
Plastic Energy wants to pyrolize over 30,000 tons of plastic a year. According to EUSTAT, the CAPV population separates around 62,000 tonnes of plastic materials into the yellow container, denouncing its intention to "convert them into CAPV plastic landfills".
They point out that the company uses the technology called pyrolysis that the European directives and decrees of the Government of Spain (Royal Decree 815/2013, of 18 October) consider incineration, not as a recycling process. Therefore, they denounce that calling what they want to do in Arcelor in a way other than incineration is "trying to deceive the citizens".
The platform denounces pyrolysis as "very dangerous."
UZ Bizi! explains that science "makes clear" the consequences of pyrolysis: chemical pollutants, uncontrollable and harmful to health, release to the environment. It is noted that a large number of uncontrolled chemicals are produced in gas combustion and cooling processes, some of which are not yet adequately analysed for their health and environmental effects.
The platform has confirmed that the company Plastic Energi has obtained data from its projects in Andalusia and that the installation emits "pollutants" such as dioxin and furans: "It has been shown that these substances affect living things until they produce cancer in skin, hormones, liver system, reproductive system... They are especially dangerous in fetal and child development."
They say putting the facility in the village is a "big irresponsibility."
In addition, the members of the platform are concerned to locate the facility in the populated area of the surroundings of the Arcelor lands: "The neighbors of the neighborhoods of Antonio Oraa, Aparicio, Artiz, Argixao or Haizea del Norte want to install a plastic burning incinerator a few meters away that is harmful to health".
Therefore, they consider that putting a chemical valuation factory close to places with high population concentration is a "great irresponsibility" from the public health point of view: "Zumarraga City Hall should take care of the best environmental conditions and such a sensitive decision for the health and environment of the population of Zumarraga and Urretxu cannot be taken unilaterally".
Briefing 3 May
On Wednesday, May 3 at 19:00 PM UZ Bizi invites the briefing to be held at the Zumarraga House of Culture. platforms for informing and consensus with citizens: "Taking into account the seriousness of the situation, we need to move to request detailed information about the project, for citizens to participate in the decision and, in accordance with the principle of attention, until the possible consequences for our health and the environment are clarified, to paralyse the project.
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