He National government will invest some 17 million dollars within the framework of a plan to close more than 60 open-air landfills throughout the national territory, in a search to recover environments and dignify the work of workers who carry out tasks linked to the recycling.
In this line, the President Luis Lacalle Pou today led the inauguration of a recycling sorting plant in Silver City, Department of Saint Josephensuring that “environmental awareness is fundamental.”
“He Ministry of Environment (MA) begins to play a role, not only in the control of some industrial and productive activities, but also in its task, which is the most difficult, because controlling others is the easiest,” he remarked. Lacalle Pou on the government portfolio.
Likewise, the president highlighted that the Executive Branch is trying to coordinate with the municipalities of Canelones and Montevideo the recycling of “garbage that makes money on a large scale”, which is capable of “transforming into biofuel and other things”. “Uruguay is prepared for that,” he said.
How will the recycling plant operate?
From now on, the household waste of the inhabitants of the area will be classified in the recycling plant, which has three intervened containers, where the garbage that is not reusable will be transferred to the departmental landfill of San José in order to offer safe conditions. appropriate jobs for recyclers.
In turn, the MA contributed a figure close to 1 million dollars for works on the transfer station, in whose management the National Institute of Cooperatives (Inacoop) and the Ministry of Social Development (Mides).
He Minister of the Environment, Robert Bouvierpointed out that they are currently working together with the 19 departmental municipalities, as well as the private sector and business chambers, to achieve the total closure of the landfills, in a process that includes the participation of workers.
In addition to the president and the head of the MA, the mayor of San José attended the opening ceremony, Ana María Bentaberri; the Secretary of the Presidency and presidential pre-candidate for the National Party (PN), Alvaro Delgado; the Undersecretary of Environment, Gerardo Amarilla; and the mayor of Ciudad del Plata, Marianita Fonsecaamong other departmental and national authorities.
Source: Ambito
