President Luis Lacalle Pou valued the project “Waste to fuel”which promotes convert trash from metropolitan area landfills into fuel for ships but acknowledged that it has not had the progress they expected because it needs the agreement of the municipalities of Montevideo and Canelones.
“Ultimately it depends on the agreement of the municipalities. We try to promote it, we have to coordinate prices and see how the waste is disposed of. We do not rule it out because we believe it is a good solution”said the president at a press conference held in Cerro Largo.
The Observer reported that the negotiations for the project, which reached executive tower at the end of 2020 with the idea of turn garbage into jet fuel and that turned towards the conversion to ethanol for boatsare truncated in the municipalities of Montevideo and Canelones.
“We have not had more meetings and the deadlines that were handled have been exceeded”said to The Observer the director of Environmental Management, Leonardo Herou, who was in the negotiations along with Alejandro Tarigo, a technician from the Waste Management Area.
Lacalle indicated that the continuity of the project “It depends on the agreement of the municipalities”. The president stated that “waste generates energy”, and hopes that the parties “come to an agreement”.
On the other hand, the president stressed that the government will invest “17 million dollars” in “closing dumps” across the country.
The project will enter the 2024 Accountabilityand will add an item for promote the recovery of offal and promote in this way the closure of landfills committed by the National Waste Management Plan by 2024.
