In the news, gathered by Maite Asensio Lozano, the MEP general stressed that “the infrastructure will use the most ‘modern’ technology. Thus, he added that it is a ‘enviable’ installation, looking at the neighbors and neighbors of Gipuzkoa: ‘Others would like to reach the level we have reached in this field. Not far from here, they still don’t know what to do with the garbage they collect.”

Is waste management in Bizkaia so “enviable”? You have to read the small print underneath the titles and the eye-catching photographs to get to know it better. That is, what comes the new TMB. Because a TMB is also planned for Gipuzkoa. The new TMB of Arraiz, built by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, is linked to the needs of the Zabalgarbi incinerator. In Berria and Deia, the figures are not given in the same way, but in the chronicles of both, it is also clear that this TMB will recycle as little as possible of the waste that has been taken there and prepare for incineration.

Anyone who has read something about waste knows that if well-separated waste is not collected from households, the Ecopark formula is the way to give better food to incineration plants, that is what it is in Catalonia and that is what it will be like in Baiona in Bilbao. Basically, more than 40% of household waste is organic (txarri-jana) that is dried. Wet organic eliminates calorific power from trash: paper burns well, plastics give a lot of heat, rags and fabrics too, but organic is wet. Let's treat organic waste to dry, flush out as much gas as possible, and we've increased the calorific power of the trash.

But look good at the money. This formula has a few winners and peteros that form a large majority. Who has paid the new TMB? The Biscayan people have paid the EUR 43 million they have spent there with their taxes. What for? So that the private company Zabalgarbi gets the waste that needs to burn better prepared to burn it. Therefore, the citizens of Bizkaia in the street container (not in those posts as ugly as those of Hernani, for God!) has paid over and over its unmistakable litter: by collecting it pays a large multinational to build the TMB of treatment for drought, paid the construction of the infrastructure managed by the private company Zabalgarbi, pays the calcination of the garbage in Zabalgarbi, always pays 1/3 of each tonne burned by Zabalgarbi and leaves out of some place the ashes of the pollution...

The Bizkaia waste formula, however, has an even more serious problem when compared to neighbouring territories. Despite what they do worse, Gipuzkoa and Navarra still have the ability to decide. Bizkaia has been chained for many years to investments in Zabalgarbi. Because of this management model that has a cardiac incineration plant, is it a problem to recycle more for the Vizcaínos?