The most visited Waste Plant in the Valencian Community
The local authorities of 61 municipalities of 5 inland districts of the province of Valencia, with the assistance of the County Council and the Regional Government, have created the Valencian Inland Consortium to jointly manage their municipal waste. Its territorial range covers 50% of the province of Valencia, and serves more than 250,000 inhabitants, who generate around 120,000 tonnes of municipal waste a year.
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The Household Waste Recovery Plant at Llíria is the most important infrastructure of the Valencian Inland Consortium. It is located some 34.75 mi (40 km) from Valencia, and its mission is to treat the household waste in the districts of Camp de Turia and Los Serranos.
It has a treatment capacity of 80,000 t of waste per year and 40,000 t of compost per year, with a capacity to absorb an extra 50% workload during 4 months to handle the seasonal pattern of waste generation in these areas.
However much we are warned, human beings still stubbornly continue, without realising that our most prized value is the environment around us. Nature, living creatures and the Earth. All of this is threatened by us.
We propose a change. We propose that this stubbornness should be channelled into the steps forward that we can all take and which, in fact, do not cost so much. Are you in? Let’s begin: reduce, reuse and recycle. Shall we go on? Reflect, recognise, respect, reunite, refresh, recover, renew…
Come to the Llíria Plant and get to know Martin and Matthew. And the urban super-hero Vincent. Come and play with us. We will carry on regardless. Recovering what appears not to be worth anything but which in fact is very valuable. Will you come with us?
At night, we take our bag of rubbish out to the container in the street. Although the process has already begun at home, by separating things before throwing them away. We also go to the recycling container. But then what happens? It’s a magical and mysterious process which happens day after day and has as its protagonist the Plant you are about to visit. And we’ve not even told you the best part…The things that were of no value are turned into something new, and useful.
At the Plant you will discover the biggest games board in the world. It is a model designed to teach you things. But it is a game too. To separate waste, put the basket in. Make Matthew advance as far as the yellow container, look at what that old television that you took to the Eco Park has turned into. An interactive game where you decide who wins.
Waste is whatever its owner wants to get rid of. But that doesn’t mean that it’s worthless. Because at the Llíria Plant we look after giving value to what you throw away, or getting value from those things that cannot be seen beforehand. Seven very valuable by-products. Discover them in the display cabinet at our permanent exhibition. Just think what you could do with them now.
A mountain, a pine forest. An orange grove. An olive grove. A vineyard. Our towns and villages are surrounded by nature. That’s why we live in a unique place. And it’s up to us to ensure everything stays the same or gets better. Rivers, woods, mountains, valleys and dells. Go for a walk with Martin and Matthew around our environment. And put your explorer glasses on. Look how many animal and vegetable species live alongside us which, if we don’t look after what is ours, we’ll be unable to see. Now what is the environmental function of our Plant?
It is a maxim of our Consortium to try to make citizens jointly responsible for providing them with all the information they need and the best services. And we also want to reward those who do good deeds, to foster everyone to follow their example. So, thanks to our pioneering scheme of My Environmental Account, we ensure that those who recycle the most save the most. Do you want to know how to make your refuse weigh less and cost less to manage? In the environmental observatory at our Plant, we’ll show you in a practical way.
Many of our neighbours, like Vincent, have realized that they can become urban super-heroes by just making a few gestures in their daily lives, by the magic formula of the three Rs. Many of our sixty-one villages have already taken a photo with us showing us how they do it and acting as an example. And they have done so benevolently. That’s why, at the Plant, a large Gallery acts as reminder of them.
Watch what you do and watch where you go. Because we have filled the plant at Llíria with secret messages. They try to tell you secrets, encourage you to keep on recycling and looking after our planet. Search for them. Read them and think about them. What do they mean to you? They mean a lot to us.
The recovery plant at Llíria, which receives refuse from half of the province of Valencia, has treated in its first nine months of existence 60,000 tonnes of waste, the equivalent of 24 Olympic pools at a rate of one ton of mixed waste per cubic metre. The facility already takes in two thirds of the waste that the 250,000 inhabitants generate in the five districts it manages.TheLas Provincias
Camp de Túria, Hoya de Buñol, Requena-Utiel, Serranos and Rincón de Ademuz have provided a sensible solution to their municipal waste. A consensus was needed. The opening of a refuse treatment plant should become a pleasurable event in any circumstance. It wasn’t like that. The opening of the facility built at Llíria, which will serve 61 municipalities, yesterday became the exception that proves the rule.Levante-EMV
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