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April 10 '08 The municipality of Puerto Lumbreras has started again, an environmental project at this time, for the collection of used cooking oil for further processing into biodiesel.
For this, the director general of the Environment, Francisco José Espejo, the mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, and Council for Environment, Local Development Eliseo Sanchez, Gines David Pinero presented this morning at the Center for Local Development the campaign to collect used cooking oil, sponsored by the Ministry of Environment, where they conducted a demonstration of how to pour the used oil, bottle it and put it in special containers authorized in various parts of the municipality, as the Center Local Development (way Casicas) Municipal Fish (Calle San Francisco), Supermarket Carrasco (Avenida Dr. Salvador Caballero García, 23) and in the supermarket in the hamlet of Upper Station-The Esparragal.
Next Friday, April 25, two ecoinformadores will travel to the weekly market of the municipality to provide information about the campaign 'Used Oil', where two ecoinformadores distributed brochures and special funnel to facilitate the discharge of oil in plastic bottles for deposited in the containers, which are then transferred to recycling plants.
The booklets are also reports about the properties of the oils domestic pollutants, which once used, are generally discharged into the sewerage system causing serious environmental damage.
According to the mayor, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, 'with this action, local residents can collect used oil from the kitchens and preserved, and deposited for recycling, since plenty of clean power is known that holds if we pour oil down the drain, where a liter of oil spill 1000 liters of contaminated water. "
This new measure initiated by the Consistory lumbrerense reinforces the road from Puerto Lumbreras to environmental consideration 'Green City'.
In the same way, it is reported that the containers do not support or other oils from lubricants, reusing the cooking oil in making biodiesel for vehicles, such as green fuel emits less harmful gases to health.
It also prevents a clean waste water treatment difficult and therefore decrease the probability of proliferation of contaminants in the water.
After demonstration of used oil recycling, the authorities moved to the EcoPark to verify in situ the location and characteristics of the new site as well as the progress of work.
NEW ECOPARQUE
Puerto Lumbreras will have a recycling or EcoPark to facilitate the collection of waste have no place in traditional containers.
The EcoPark is intended to group both domiciled MSW recoverable as special.
Thus, in a Clean Spot find everything from the bulky equipment, pharmaceuticals, films, paint solvents, batteries, etc..
It is truly a place where citizens can deposit waste in the certainty that they will be withdrawn by the authorized agents for recycling or processing.
The works occupy a total of 1,200 square meters and consist of a modular control building, a building of special household waste, a classroom for environmental education and information, restrooms, a maintenance depot, parks, parking area, area MSW, interior circulation roads, sewage networks, water supply and electricity.
The EcoPark is located on a site provided by the Municipality of Puerto Lumbreras located in the industrial area of town.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras
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