Olhão has had a new Ecocentro since June 16th, an infrastructure whose need was long claimed by the population and assumed by the municipality. The infrastructure was inaugurated on the day of the municipality and is already in full operation, having as one of the main objectives to avoid the accumulation of garbage in the public space.
“This ecocentre brings a new organization in waste management, which, as you know, has had some problems in the past. There were some difficulties in managing certain types of waste, such as green, cardboard and monos, which did not have a proper place to be deposited and were left in any land, somewhere, where they created a bad environment», he revealed to Sul Informação the vice president of the Chamber of Olhão Carlos Martins.
“We had to give an answer, creating an adequate infrastructure for the time, which are these ecocentres, which receive differentiated waste. With this, we will achieve an improvement in the global waste management system. We are going to collect this type of waste from restaurants and commerce, to deposit it in the ecocentre», he added.
For years, the destination of this garbage was an existing land in Quelfes, which ended up becoming an open-air dump. The construction of this Ecocentro has made great strides towards solving this problem, which led to protests by civic movements and fines from environmental authorities in 2009.
«When we arrived here, in 2009 (Carlos Martins was, in the previous term, Councilor for the Environment), we had this and other serious problems. Today, I think it is clear that they have already been resolved and, as promised, we have here the infrastructure that in 2009 we had said would be built, although it took a little longer than expected», said Carlos Martins.
The completion of the Ecocentro work was scheduled for 2012, after the work was launched by the municipality in 2011. At the time, as Sul Informação reported, the problem of the land that served as a dump, in Quelfes, had already been resolved. and the dedicated collection service was already being planned, which is now moving towards commercial establishments. The work cost around 250 thousand euros.
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