Barcelona Ecoparc façade
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At present a set of facilities to treat household waste is operational in the metropolitan area. The current facilities and those planned in the PMGRM are intended to achieve the aim of recovering up to 60% of waste, and sending only 40% for finalist treatments (energetic valorization facilitys and controlled disposal sites). In these facilities, the various fractions of waste are treated in specialised manners: compost or biogas being obtained from organic matter, and raw materials being obtained from the selective collection fractions, which are subsequently re-introduced into the production circuit, (paper, glass, plastic and metal). The Barcelona Ecoparc has recently come into operation. This is the first facility intended to completely treat organic waste and, generally speaking, all household waste that has not been collected in the specific containers for glass, paper and card and containers. A second Ecoparc is in an advanced stage of construction in Montcada i Reixac.
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