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Biopathogenic Waste Treatment Plant- a solution for the next 30 years
The total investment involves a budget of $514,499,708 and the participation of three companies: ILKA, BEPHA and IACO. Throughout the province there are 1,008 generators that generate about 55 tons of biopathogenic and pharmaceutical waste per month.
The Provincial Government came out to highlight that the Biopathogenic Waste Treatment Plant that is being built in the town of Toay is "a solution for the next 30 years", within the framework of the health security conditions of the population.
Regarding the project, he highlighted that “a comprehensive system for the collection, transport, treatment and final disposal of biopathogenic and pharmaceutical waste (RByF) was designed. It was designed to give comprehensive treatment to hazardous waste generated during human and animal care in all public and private establishments in the Province, using it in a context of environmental, social, economic and financial sustainability, ensuring its implementation. within a framework of social and territorial equity.
The assembly of the comprehensive system included "multiple studies of waste generation, survey of RByF generators, weight and volume estimates, 30-year statistical projections, analysis of the geospatial distribution of generators, survey of existing infrastructure and final disposal sites."
Likewise, it involved “evaluating the collection and transportation system, the treatment and final disposal system, as well as the preparation of an Environmental Impact Assessment submitted to a public hearing process.”
Throughout the province there are 1,008 generators that generate about 55 tons of biopathogenic and pharmaceutical waste per month, according to official estimates.
Environmental impacts
In another part of a press release regarding the plant in Toay, from the Government they highlighted that "the choice of technological treatment alternatives had an emphasis on guaranteeing the treatment of 100% of the waste generated, minimizing environmental impacts and ensuring the Total sterilization of waste, removing danger from those that are potentially dangerous due to their characteristics of infectiousness and toxicity. Autoclave and pyrolytic incinerator furnace treatment technologies associated with a HECKAS-type gas treatment system will be used.
«As an integral part of the design of the system, there are the works of the Treatment Plant whose construction was implemented in two stages and additional works. The 1st stage ended in 2019, and consists of a warehouse for parking vehicles, office containers, a final disposal cell for RBPyF, a leachate collection cell, installation of water meters, containers for weighing and safe storage of waste, among others. others. This first stage of work was prioritized, out of the total projected components, due to the emergency in the management of biopathogenic waste. At the end of this stage, the outsourced service for the Collection, Transportation and Final Disposal of waste was started in Santa Rosa and Toay;
The second stage was launched in 2021, with a work term of 450 days. «It is in an advanced stage and consists of the construction of the second warehouse where the treatment equipment and associated facilities will be installed, gas supply works, and the purchase of an Autoclave and a Pyrolitic Furnace with a gas treatment system. Heckas-type gases," he added.
The investment for this stage exceeds 250 million pesos. "Its completion will guarantee the treatment of all the biopathogenic and pharmaceutical waste generated in the Province with both technologies, Autoclave (90% of the waste generated) and Pyrolytic Oven (10% remaining)", he specified.
The total investment for the construction of Stage 1, Stage 2 and complementary of the Biopathogenic and Pharmaceutical Waste Treatment Plant implies a budget of $514,499,708 and the participation of three companies (ILKA, BEPHA and IACO).
Inter-institutional project
Several organisms and technical teams of the Executive Power intervened in the project by virtue of their faculties and functions: the Ministry of Health, which promoted and actively participated in the design of the integral system together with the consulting firm EusaKal SA Engineering and Environment; the Ministry of Works and Public Services, executor of the necessary works; the Sub-Secretariat of the Environment as enforcement authority in environmental matters in the public hearing process; and the Municipality of Toay.
At the same time, the Ministry of Health, through the Epidemiology Directorate, is working on different strategic lines focused on the internal management of biopathogenic and pharmaceutical waste, "understanding as such the entire process that goes from the generation of the waste itself to safe final storage at each facility.
"The prioritized activities have to do with improving the efficiency in the internal management of waste by adopting measures aimed at reducing the amount of hazardous waste generated, guaranteeing the correct segregation (separation) and conditioning of the same, designing and assisting the processes of adequacy of the generators, elaboration of protocols, carrying out situation diagnoses to identify management deficiencies, promoting the registration of generators of this type of waste, carrying out training, among others, ”concluded the official press release. |
