Visits to the Maresme Integral Centre for Waste Recovery are now adapted for people with reduced mobility

Maresme Circular has installed various accessible raised platforms at different points in the Centre that allow visitors to see the different municipal waste treatment processes

Maresme Circular has installed eleven accessible raised platforms at different points along the route of the Maresme Integral Centre for Waste Recovery to adapt the guided tours offered to people with reduced mobility.

The platforms, made of plastic waste, allow visitors to see the different municipal waste treatment processes through large windows: from when the trucks carrying the residual waste fraction unload the rubbish into the pit, to when different technologies separate it according to whether it is plastic, metal, cardboard or glass waste. During the tour you can also see the process of biostabilization of organic waste.

Accessible platforms that allow viewing of the different processes of municipal waste treatment / Maresme Circular

Last year (2022-2023) the Centre received more than 6,200 visitors, and it is estimated that this year more than 7,000 users will come to enjoy the guided tour.

Virtual reality as a tool for environmental education

Since November 2022, when the Maresme Circular Immersive Experience activity began, school visits to the Maresme Integral Centre for Waste Recovery have been increasing.

The activity consists of a journey to the present and future of recycling through Virtual Reality and is experienced as a complement to the guided tour of the different waste treatment processes at the Centre.

Using Meta Quest 2 virtual reality glasses with a resolution of 5K, and through a series of virtual flights that generate a highly immersive 3D sensation, the user flies over the Maresme Integral Centre for Waste Recovery enjoying panoramic views of Mataró and much of the region, travels into space and lands in a sustainable and self-sufficient city of the future. All this in 25 minutes and with the help of an animated drone that besides guiding the visitor, teaches concepts such as the circular economy and downcycling.

The experience is suitable for people from 7 years old and is available in three languages: Catalan, Spanish and English. Any school or institute can request it by contacting Maresme Circular.

‘Un volt als residus’

Both activities are part of the environmental education program ‘Un volt als residus’, which was created in 2013 with the aim of raising awareness about the problems of production and consumption models that have led to the current climate emergency. It teaches how waste management has a key role to play hand in hand with the co-responsibility of the whole society to remake the future. More than 60,000 people have already taken part in the program.