Extremadura, SPAIN
| Partnername | Location | ||
| Extremadura Region, General Directorate on Environmental Assessment and Quality | Country | Spain | |
| Region | Extremadura | ||
| City | Mérida | ||
PHASE 1 Identification & selection of closed landfills to be redeveloped
Extremadura is located in the south west of Spain near the Portugal border.
The Directorate on Environmental assessment and Quality is a special unit of the Industry, Energy and Environment Ministry of Extremadura Regional Government. The Directorate is in charge of regulating and controlling waste- and landfill management, including monitoring and afteruse. Recently an integrated waste plan of Extremadura has been installed. The Directorate chairs GESPESA and EcoParques which are public companies that manages several landfills and recycling plants.
Because of Extremadura's low population density waste and landfill management is not yet fully environmentally controlled. The Directorate would like to promote political decisions to have landfill redevelopment projects actually implemented in Extremadura.
At present there are almost 400 inert- and non-hazourdous waste landfills in the Extremadura region. However, the vast majority of these do not meet the most basic technical requirements, and are considered illegal.
2 landfills have been selected for redevelopment.
Plasencia and Merida landfill
Both landfills are the only ones in the Extremadura Region that are closed according to national Spanish law (Royal Decree 1481/2001) and EU-landfill directives. Both landfills are sealed with a mineral and geotextile topliner. The landfill has been covered with a topsoil of 0,2 metres to have vegetatation and native species grown. Also a landfill gas extraction facility has been built to flare the gas.
Together with local administrations, the waste management consortia of Badajoz and Caceres, GESPESA and potential private investors new uses will be planned to have the sites redeveloped.
