A Pobra do Brollón has a new mobile clean point that will circulate through the parishes of the municipality to facilitate recycling and the safe deposit of waste. The initiative is part of the municipal program ‘Less waste, more life’, and is carried out with the support of the Xunta's Department of the Environment, and the Feder.
The presentation of the clean point was held on Saturday the 16th in a talk in which data on garbage collection was also shared and an assessment of the City Council's community composting plan was taken.
The mayor, Xosé Lois Maceda; the councilor for the environment, Ricardo Rodicio; and the environmental technician, Elvira Martínez were present at the talk. In addition, the vice president of the Pontevedra Provincial Council, César Mosquera, and two experts from the Revitaliza plan participated: the advisor Carlos Pérez and Manuel Enrique, a ‘master composter’.
A mobile clean point versus dispersion
The mobile clean point is a trailer with separate compartments to deposit polluting waste such as fluorescent tubes, used oil, aerosols, paint containers, batteries and expired medicines, among others. The trailer will circulate through the different parishes for the use of residents.
‘In a municipality like ours, where the population is very dispersed, this mobile clean point is very necessary. We expect that from January the mobile clean point will already be in circulation,’ commented Ricardo Rodicio in the presentation.
Pioneering municipality in waste management
The mobile clean point joins other initiatives already implemented in the A Pobra do Brollón Council, such as community composting. Composting is a way of converting vegetable and food waste into natural fertilizer (compost). In addition to the enormous environmental benefits of composting, it also represents economic savings in the collection and treatment of waste and the purchase of fertilizers.
The City Council of A Pobra do Brollón has had six community compost bins for use by residents since March 2018. Since then, 6,000 kg of organic waste has been collected in the capital and – in addition to what was generated by the individual compost bins in the plan – 1,500 kg of compost has been generated, part of which was distributed to the residents attending the event on Saturday.
Thanks to community composting, the amount of waste in the black bag has been reduced by more than 20 tons in A Pobra do Brollón, according to data provided by Rodicio. This implies a great reduction in environmental impact and savings in waste collection costs.
In this regard, César Mosquera, vice president of the Pontevedra Provincial Council and responsible for the model Revitaliza composting plan, said that waste management in A Pobra do Brollón is a unique experience in the province of Lugo and that it follows the line set by the European Union, which will require that by 2020, half of municipal waste be reused or recycled.
