The Government of Catalonia’s Department of Territory and Sustainability and Department of Culture have launched a campaign to promote the selective collection and recycling of electrical and electronic equipment in Catalonia’s public libraries.The aim is to intensify the involvement of citizens in reducing waste and changing the system towards a circular economy, which prioritises the…
From the Maresme Waste Consortium, on behalf of the Mataró Maresme Circular Park project, last Friday we took part in the round table “Take charge of your future: find out about the opportunities in today’s job market” organized by the Mataró Employment Service. This activity was held as part of the SIOP 2021 Professional…
Some thirty countries around the world are represented in this group, with different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, which allows the exchange of experiences and knowledge of very diverse realities and visions. Last Thursday, the director of the Maresme Waste Consortium, Carles Salesa, took part in one of the annual meetings of the international working group…
At the beginning of the year, the Maresme Waste Consortium launched a study to obtain data on the incidence of odours at various points in the immediate surroundings of the Waste Centre and in the city of Mataró, in order to determine which of these come from the Centre itself. As part of this study…
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,…
