Several mayors and councilors of the Maresme district visited last Saturday the facilities of the new Centre Integral de Valorització de Residus del Maresme led by the mayor of Mataró, Joan Mora, chairman of the Consorci per al Tractament de Residus Sòlids Urbans del Maresme. Among them, there were the mayor of Alella, Andreu Francisco, the mayoress of Sant Pol, Montserrat Rodríguez, and the mayor of Dosrius, Josep Jo, vicepresident of the Consorci.

The visitors saw the new facilities of the centre, the most relevant being the new plant of treatment of the mixed waste fraction. The aim of the facility is the treatment of the mixed waste fraction to recover all the reusable materials, included the organic matter, and derive the combustible waste remaining to the Waste-to-Energy plant, which has also undergone improvements to adapt to the new combustible waste to treat.

The new facilities make it possible to exploit new renewable energy sources which complement the energy obtained from Waste-Energy plant and methanization (obtaining biogas from organic matter) with the largest photovoltaic solar roof cover in the Maresme district and the supply of heat to the municipal network District Heating and Cooling known as Tub Verd (Green Pipe).

The new Centre Integral de Valorització de Residus del Maresme has the advantage to include in one facility a wide variety of processes, complying with the proximity and sufficiency principles, and being at the same time a reference facility at international level.

On the 18 February, some other mayors and councilors of the Maresme district will be visiting the plant, as well as some coming from the Vallès Oriental district, a district with which Maresme has an agreement of waste fluxes exchange and optimization.

The manager of the plant explains the operation of the furnaces. (Photograph: M. Cruz)

Picture of the group at the end of the visit. (Photograph: M. Cruz)