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The new machinery incorporated by the Waste Treatment Center of Alicante (Cetra) will allow the conversion of organic waste into compost for agriculture and gardening
Alicante, March 24, 2025. The Alicante City Council is progressing in the installation of a new line for the treatment of biowaste at the Waste Treatment Center of Alicante (Cetra) to convert the organic waste from the deployment of the brown container throughout the city into high-quality compost for agriculture and gardening. To achieve this, it has taken the first step to cover the amount of 1,600,309.72 euros, giving the green light on Monday to this modification of the extended municipal budget of 2024, prior to its approval in the Plenary Session next Thursday, to meet the municipal financing of this project, which includes contributions from the Generalitat and environmental agents, amounting to a total investment of 3,123,351.22 euros.
The agreement proposal presented by the Councilor of Finance, Antonio Gallego, has been favorably informed with the votes of the Popular group in the municipal government and the Vox councilors, obtaining majority support, despite the opposing position taken by the representatives of the Socialist and Compromís groups, due to the absence of the spokesperson of EU Podemos.
The Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Environment, Street Cleaning, and Waste Management, Manuel Villar, has been explaining that the City Council is working on a program to modernize and improve Cetra and the Fontcalent landfill, with a total budget of 17.68 million euros, of which 10.7 is contributed by UTE Alicante – mainly for improvements in the plant and landfill – and the rest by the City Council, with contributions from European funds, the Generalitat, and its own funds, mainly for the development of the new biowaste treatment line.
For this new biowaste treatment line, the City Council has awarded contracts totaling 4.7 million euros, which will increase CETRA’s capacity to transform more than 50 tons of organic waste into compost, expected to be managed with the deployment of brown containers throughout the city.
In this regard, the City Council has just pre-awarded this month to the company Industrial Leblan S.L. the supply and installation contract for the pre-treatment of the organic fraction of separate waste collection, which submitted an economic offer of 2,351,535.78 euros, out of a tender budget of 2,760,351.22 euros.
Similarly, in February, the purchase and installation of new machinery for refining bio-stabilized waste was pre-awarded for another 2,390,721.90 euros to the UTE formed by the companies Tamesur S.A. and Estudios, Dirección e Investigación en Fermentaciones Especiales S.A., out of a tender price of 2,691,862.80 euros.
Other investments
In addition, the City Council has also approved the supply of new machinery to modernize Cetra and enhance waste selection at the plant. For this purpose, it has awarded the supply of an optical separator for polypropylene packaging at the waste treatment plant in Alicante and its installation to the company Tamesur S.A. for 198,825.69 euros.
Furthermore, new machinery has been recently acquired and installed for 906,277.90 euros, consisting of a triple classification trommel and conveyor belts for the modernization of current treatment processes. All of this investment has been carried out over the past year, during which the entire network of containers for different fractions of selective collection has also been renewed, including the deployment of the brown container for organic waste throughout the city.
