Valencia Floods: Some 2,500 tons of waste is being removed each day from affected areas

The Department of Environment, Infrastructure and Territory is managing 2,500 tons of waste collected daily during the cleaning tasks that are being carried out in the municipalities affected by the DANA.

Given this exceptional situation and as an emergency measure, the Generalitat Valenciana has launched a special service with the help of different companies to guarantee the proper management of this waste with the incorporation of new machinery and new containers to remove, as quickly and efficiently as possible, the accumulated debris. The first hundred reinforcement containers have already arrived at the Comunidad Valenciana Environmental Education Centre (CEACV) in Sagunto.

The public company VAERSA will be in charge of the immediate distribution of these containers to the affected municipalities to reinforce the collection capacity and attend to the urgent need of the people, adding to other provisional containers that have been distributed in recent days.

The Department of Environment, Infrastructure and Territory has already launched a plan to manage the sludge and accumulation of debris caused by the floods, with the aim of working uninterruptedly and carrying out more efficient management.

The current operation involves the collection of damaged possessions and debris during the morning from the different urban areas to deposit them in fields or plots enabled outside the municipalities and accessible to heavy vehicles, where the piles will be taken by truck to the landfills at Los Hornillos and, if necessary, at Guadassuar during the night.

The Generalitat Valenciana, through the General Directorate of Quality and Environmental Education, has designed this plan after the signing of different provisional but urgent resolutions for the collection of sludge for later filling in quarries in nine municipalities of the province of Valencia that have offered their facilities.