The controlled disposal site of Vall d'en Joan appears today as an irrefutable exponent of the Environment Metropolitan Entity environmental policy, and it is a clear example of the gradual but meaningful advance of the new approach of the Municipal Residues Management Metropolitan Program (PMGRM), in development since 1997.
In fact the controlled disposal site of Garraf has moved from the old practice of "elimination of municipal residues" to its adaptation to the new emerging paradigms that claim for residues treatment system more respectful with the environment and with the territory.
Precisely for this, the actual controlled disposal site of Vall d'en Joan is of meaningful relevance. We are in front of an infrastructure of elimination in progressive deactivation regime, with a scheduled closing date fixed (2006) and with a simultaneous process of morphological, physical and vegetal restoration. This actuation should enable a wide consensus regarding the selective pick ups and the needed construction -partially achieved already- of new alternative installations of recovering, valuation and treatment of our residues.
The contains of the material we offer allow the citizens to find enough information about the processes that are taking place in the controlled disposal site of Vall d'en Joan, information that can help to compliment and understand other approaches more oriented to their daily experience: Their active participation in the selective garbage disposal, in the reduction of residues, in the cleaning of their own city and, in the improvement, of the environment and the metropolitan territory.
José Ignacio Cuervo Argudín
President of the Metropolitan Hydraulic Services and Waste Treatment Corporation
|