The Mayor of Mazarron, Ginés Campillo, has issued a new camp for treatment and waste burning plant aims to increase the degree of protection for urban areas of the municipality and whose primary purpose is to avoid nuisance to neighbors at the practice of this activity.
The side is more restrictive in regard to areas that can carry out these fires, as they have expanded the miles of distance from urban centers to carry out this practice, which is a higher level of demand environmental protection and citizen.
The City Council recognizes that, at this time, there are the infrastructures allocate agricultural organic waste composting, with consequent inconvenience to the neighbors represent the generation of smoke from the burning and destruction of a potentially recyclable .
Thus, it was explained to farmers and agricultural companies to proceed with the burning of crop residues will now be necessary to have the appropriate authorization from the Municipal Services Environment.
It is further prohibited the burning of plant residues in a range of six miles around the center town, where once were only two.
The burning operation will not start before eight o'clock and will end before one pm on the same day, it may be done only from Monday through Thursday and is expressly forbidden to burn crop residues during the remaining days of the week.
Also, during periods of Christmas, Easter and summer are also strictly prohibited the burning of waste.
This camp will allow from the Department of Environment to take place more control over this practice until you start the project of a composting plant in the municipality.
The project "is going through its final stages for their achievement," while the Department of the Environment "in the search works subsidies and grants to enable this initiative to reality without imposing an economic aggravating the municipal coffers," as delegate expressed the mayor of the Environment, David Fernandez.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón