Tarragona promotes the selective collection of domestic oil used by municipalities

Tarragona. Costa Dorada. The campaign to collect used oil that drives home the far reaches of Tarragona in Tarragona. Unit Environment, Public Health and Health Planning Service Municipal Council continues to campaign began in 2010 "Your oil moves us!" To implement the collection of this waste in the municipalities of Golf Tarragona and Terres de l'Ebre. The Council already started this campaign in 2010 in the counties of Alt Camp, Baix Camp, Priorat and Conca de Barberá, and expects to reach the other towns of less than 100,000 inhabitants of the province in a third and fourth phase of the campaign. Through this action, to be implemented in municipalities with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants of the region of Tarragona, it aims to reduce water pollution of soil and increase environmental awareness of citizens of a waste contaminant al'aprofitament as domestic oil used. Tarragona Province, according to the rules published in the BOP Tarragona no. 108, dated 11 May 2011, will provide the necessary means to achieve the implementation of selective collection of domestic oil used by municipalities in the region of Tarragona. In this sense, provide free containers and funnels for collecting used oil and household also given information leaflets and all the material necessary for the dissemination of this campaign. The oil used is a household waste that is a major cause of pollution by sewage basically bad habits, the little bad habit of recycling and dumping it in the sink, the toilet or throw it in the garbage. The effects of dumping this waste are: - Problems, traffic jams and bad smells in the pipes. - Although difficult and the treatment of wastewater. Contaminant - basins, aquifers and the sea, and adversely affect natural ecosystems. Selective collection of this waste is an initiative that brings important environmental benefits because, on one hand, reduces the source of water pollution of the soil, and the other, minimizing the impact on climate change reducing emissions of greenhouse gases through the recovery of this waste as a biofuel.  

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