Ponticelli. By the year 2023 to Napoli a plant will have to be built for the treatment of approximately 30 thousand tons per year of organic waste deriving from separate waste collection, which, in addition to the usual aerobic treatments, uses the process and technology of anaerobic digestion, with the production of approximately 4 million cubic meters per year of biogas to be introduced into the national network.
These are the characteristics of the new composting plant in the Ponticelli district of Naples, in the eastern area of the city. The presentation of the tender, which took place today in the presence of the mayor Gaetano Manfredi and the president of the Region, Vincenzo De Luca, comes after a complex process, which involved over 30 entities, called to express their opinion on the project, financed with 31 million from the Fsc 2014-202 funds, provided by the Region.
The Municipality has set up a central purchasing body with Asia, the urban hygiene company of Naples. The same Central has then published the tender for the joint assignment of the executive design and the execution of the works for the construction of the plant. It will enter into operation at the beginning of 2024 and will be built in an area adjacent to the Naples East purifier, on a surface of approximately 72 thousand square meters.
Modern technologies will be used to contain odors, respecting the values allowed by the environmental authorization decree. “The construction of this plant – De Luca emphasizes – leads to a historic administrative turning point that deserves full appreciation. We are turning the page after decades of waste emergency and working in a structural way on the crisis points.
For De Luca, the construction of this plant can also have an “extraordinary value in the negotiations with the EU to definitively close the sanction on waste, of which we have already cut the first two thirds with the plants of Caivano and Giugliano”. Manfredi underlines that work is being done to “progressively make the city and the metropolitan area autonomous from the point of view of the plant engineering. This plant – he adds – has the advantage of reducing the environmental impact of the waste cycle. Today we take thousands of tons of wet waste and bring them to Padua.
Citizens pay a high rate for a poor service, because we pay abnormally for disposal. It's absurd." For the mayor, it is therefore a "qualitative leap to close the plant cycle", with benefits that will then fall on the citizens. The Ponticelli plant will be "high-tech - he concludes - the most advanced in biodigestion, with zero impact from an environmental point of view. At a time when there is so much talk about energy, it has the advantage of producing biomethane, which will be inserted into the network and will allow for great savings from an economic point of view, which we will then pass on to the bill."
Article published on 20 July 2022 - 19:48
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