This working group has been set up with the aim of coordinating the territorial and inter-territorial collaboration of the supra-municipal agents involved in the world of waste in Spain. The idea is to achieve synergies, apply instruments for promotion and improvement and present themselves in a unified manner before the state and European public authorities….
Last Thursday, 4th March, the Director of the Maresme Waste Consortium, Carles Salesa, and its President, the Mayor of Mataró, David Bote, attended the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Catalan Waste Agency. Salesa did so in his capacity as the Lead Technician of the Environment and Mobility Commission of the Territory and…
The Maresme Waste Centre produces around 94,000-megawatt hours of electrical energy each year, of which more than two-thirds are distributed to the electricity grid, supplying electricity to around 30,000 homes. Beyond conscientiously promoting the 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, the Maresme Waste Consortium is working to provide a tangible response to the needs that arise…
RIGREC is an initiative that will promote academic knowledge, at the same time as providing the transfer of experiences on the circular economy to the society of Campeche, Mexico. On March 2nd, the agreement for the creation of RIGREC, the Ibero-American Network of Waste Management for the Circular Economy, was signed. A new initiative created…
The working group aims to be a space for discussion and debate, on a Catalan-wide scale, to promote circularity practices. The Maresme Waste Consortium is part of the Circular and Green Economy Working Group of the Cities and Towns towards Sustainability Network. A space for the exchange of experiences and knowledge, and of training and…
Last week the first meeting and constitution of the plenary of the Territory and Sustainability area of the Federation of Municipalities of Catalonia (FMC) took place, chaired by the mayor of Martorell, Xavier Fonollosa, with the mayor of Mataró, David Bote, in the role of vice-president. This is one of the seven sectoral areas into…
The results will make it possible to obtain the number and frequency of hours of odour exposure at the control points, as well as characterising the most relevant sources of emission at the Centre’s facilities. This study will provide a careful and continuous reading of odour exposure in different areas close to the Centre…
The TecnoCampus presents the Chair on Circular Economy and Sustainability, promoted by the patronage of the Maresme Consortium for Waste and Aigües de Mataró. On Friday 5 February, the TecnoCampus presented what is the third university-business chair to be launched since the inauguration of the park. This is the Chair of Circular Economy and Sustainability,…
The Mataró-Maresme Circular Park’s proposal for collaboration between the administration and the private sector has a number of features that make it highly innovative. The director of the Maresme Waste Consortium, Carles Salesa, spoke last Tuesday afternoon in the online seminar “Public-private collaboration in public service companies: success stories”. The activity was organised by the…
The project, the first of its kind in Europe, has a budget of 6.5 million euros for its first phase, and will be a reference in the Circular Economy from the moment the first stone is laid. The General Meeting of the Maresme Consortium for Municipal Solid Waste Treatment has approved the construction project of…
A total of 18 municipalities in the county already meet the Catalan objective for 2020 to selectively collect more than 50% of their municipal waste In 2019, the county of the Maresme improved its results for selective collection with respect to the previous year. Specifically, there was an increase of 4.18%, meaning a total of…
The main continuous indicator of the presence of chlorinated products, necessary for the formation of dioxins, has decreased even more during the treatment of sanitary waste since the end of March, according to a specific study carried out by the Eurecat The Maresme Integral Centre for Waste Recovery has lowered the production of dioxins…
