According to the information received by the Real Estate through “trusted sources”, the Consorcio de Residuos de Guipúzcoa and the Mancomunidad de la Ribera have agreed to bury in an “external landfill” the majority of the 70,000 tons of waste that will be transported annually from Guipúzcoa to El Culebret de Tudela, beginning in the private landfill of the FCC in Arnedo.

The waste will be divided into three parts in El Culebret: recyclable, organic and rejection. The first part is expected to represent only 9% of the total waste and all the rest – 56% organic matter with improper materials and 35% inert rejection – will be transported by the FCC company to the town of Arnedo, in the Community of La Rioja, 65 kilometers away, to be buried directly without going through methanisation or compost plants.

The Arnedo landfill is in the hands of the FCC and has recently obtained a municipal permit with a third site to expand the landfill, for which it will invest 660,000 euros.

GHK will pay the Comunidad de la Ribera 70 euros per tonne for transporting the waste to El Culebret – about 5 million euros per year. The latter will instead pay the FCC 46 euros per tonne to transport 91% of this waste to Arnedo and bury it there – just over 3 million euros a year – according to information received by the Real Estate Agency.

Thus, the waste from Gipuzkoa will end up in La Rioja, without any treatment being given to the organic that is the largest part and only 9% of the rejection will be recycled. In any case, it should not be ruled out that this figure is lower in the end, since according to public data only 1.12% of the inert reject that enters El Culebret is now recycled.

Modification of the Environmental Authorization “of little importance”

El Culebret would not have the capacity to treat 70,000 tons of waste in Gipuzkoa, as recently denounced by the Compañia de las 3 erres because it does not have an environmental permit to do so.

In this connection, the source points out that the manager of the Ribera Community has concluded that the necessary change to the environmental permit is “of little importance”, because most of the waste that will be transported from Gipuzkoa will not be “transferred to other sections of the plant”, nor will it “affect the collection site or increase the facilities”.