Ministry of Health will remove moorings to the electricity generation with garbage

Regulation will allow municipalities to use technology to burn solid waste

March 23rd,2015

The Ministry of Health will remove the ties that prevent municipalities generate electricity by burning solid waste.

This portfolio has ready a regulation that will allow lifting the ban that the government imposed last June, the incineration of waste.

Several municipalities are in this technique a chance to capture revenue and solve the problem of final waste treatment.

Meanwhile, neighborhood watch in awe the idea.

One factor that weighed so that the executive decree the moratorium was precisely the lack of knowledge in the country about this new process.

Furthermore, the lack of rules was drawn to control damage to public health, pollution and emissions of toxic gases.

Reactions. After a lengthy review process and two public consultations, standards for waste incineration have already been approved by the Ministry of Health.

The regulation details the type of waste that can process, the materials may not be burned, the team must have the incineration facility and emissions controls.

In addition, detailed that plants may begin operations six months after the regulation was published in the Official Gazette.

"As a country, it is an option that must handle; must have a range of possibilities, and recycling, landfills and incineration are what the state has now "claimed Ricardo Morales, Health Surveillance.

Mora said the rules are based on North American and European standards (such as the Environmental Protection Agency).

The news was greeted with enthusiasm by municipalities due to the ban, had to postpone plans to promote projects for burning garbage.

When the moratorium was issued, for example, the City of León Cortés already had the backing to hire firm 7048 Agricultural and build a gasification plant to convert 45 tons in one megawatt.

In June, after a local protest, San Ramon buried simulate a project.

Yadira Soto, ramonense neighbor, ignoring the recent endorsement of Health, but said the community refuses to suffer for the emission of gases, odors and daily traffic of garbage trucks.

In this regard, Mercedes Moya, Mayor of San Ramón, and Gilberto Monge, Mayor of Mora, claimed that the reincineración provides an output to the collapse of landfills.

The ramonense deposit, for example, must close the August 19 order of the Sala IV.

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