The dumping of plastic bags occupied an area of 3000 square meters that flew out of a waste treatment plant.
The SEPRONA of the Las Palmas Command, has denounced on April 26 the company in charge of the management of a landfill when it was in the vicinity of it and occupying
an area of about 3 km2, a large presence of light plastics (plastic bags, sacks and pieces of plastic film of multiple characteristics) dumped throughout the natural environment of the Juan Grande area.
Occurrence of events
While the SEPRONA components of the Las Palmas Command carried out their own service framed in the protection of the environment in the area in the Juan Grande area, they detected a large
accumulation of plastic bags that seemed to have accumulated that same day or previous days, settling on different natural obstacles, such as herbaceous and shrubby plants. It should also be noted that a large part of these bags affected a large number of cardon specimens. , rocks from the terrain and slopes of existing natural unevenness.
SEPRONA immediately followed up the trail of dumping of bags to the place where there was the greatest accumulation, verifying how this could have originated in an authorized landfill in the Juan Grande area when a greater presence of bags was detected as it approached the aforementioned complex. and that they had spread southwards driven by the direction of the wind.
Investigation and investigations collected
For all these reasons, SEPRONA carried out an inspection in a waste treatment plant with the objective of knowing the origin in order to find out the possible origin of the waste, reaching the conclusion that these bags come from the treatment of waste that comes from the separation of urban waste, which for the most part is made up of light plastics that cannot be recycled, and which also have a high volatile capacity, which, together with the frequent presence of wind in the area, could have caused the exit of said waste from the premises with the subsequent accumulation in the natural environment.
In addition, the Civil Guard processed the corresponding report and complaint for an alleged violation of law 7.22 on contaminated soils and waste directed to the Canary Islands Agency for the Protection of the Natural Environment, the body competent to open sanctioning files in this matter of the Autonomous Government of Canary Islands.