translated from Spanish: Cornejo seeks another credit, this time for urban waste

Governor Alfredo Cornejo, along with The Secretary of Environment and Land Management, Humberto Mingorance, received the authorities of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Secretariat of Environment of the Nation and the quartermasters of the Area Metropolitan to define guidelines within the framework of the GIRSU Project. The meeting was held in the Cultural Ship of Ciudad.La construction of the urban waste treatment plant of Gran Mendoza and Valle de Uco requires the Legislature to approve the investment. In mid-June, the provincial executive presented the project, but has not yet progressed. Intendants of the Gran Mendoza and the Uco Valley have come to the House of Laws to ask for their treatment and explain the need and benefits to start the project.” The Borbollón received 250 thousand tons of garbage and is now sent twice as much” (500 thousand tons), Cornejo explained. Regarding the funding that the IDB grants to the Province, the Governor said that “it is a benefit that derives from good resource management”. And he gave as an example the departments of Godoy Cruz and Luján, which have already closed the open-pit rubbish such as El Pozo. “Guaymallén is going in that same direction,” he added. Integral Urban Solid Waste Management (GIRSU)The objective of the Program is to implement comprehensive urban solid waste management (RSU) systems in urban centers of more than 20,000 inhabitants based on strategic intervention plans. The goal is to reduce the disposal of RSU in open-pit rubbish (BCA) and increase its disposal in properly designed, built and operated landfills in urban centers.” The project is divided into two: one part of the funds is for the consortium made up of the three municipalities of the Uco Valley, which is called COINCE, and the other part of the funds is for the ambitious project that will benefit the seven municipalities of the Metropolitan Area , for which a $19 million item has been earmarked,” said Environment Secretary Humberto Mingorance.

The head of the environmental area stressed that “the municipalities of the Uco Valley – through the COINCE – have been working very well, making the disposal of their waste in a single landfill. This $100 million funding is so that COINCE can build two transfer and transportation plants – trucks and punts – for logistics to landfill. These transfer plants will help these municipalities to greatly lower logistical costs.”

The Comprehensive Urban Solid Waste Management Program (GIRSU) also includes the implementation of actions and initiatives of education, awareness and social communication, institutional strengthening, separation at source, collection, logistics and transportation, transfer, recovery, recycling and final disposal of RSU and open pit waste sanitation (BCA), aimed at promoting the comprehensive management of MSR. Implementation of the programme is the responsibility of the Secretariat of Government for Environment and Sustainable Development of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Nation (SAyDS). To this end, it constituted a Programme Executing Unit (UEP), responsible for the management, coordination, implementation, management and general administration of the programme, financial-accounting management as well as its monitoring and evaluation.

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