Items filtered by date: Tuesday, 07 May 2019
Argentina: Geocycle has signed a three-year deal with the Province of Mendoza to use tyres at LafargeHolcim’s Capdeville cement plant. Geocycle has spent Euro1.15m on preparing a unit to process the tyres, according to the Los Andes newspaper. The waste management subsidiary of LafargeHolcim has also worked with the local government on setting up collection points for residents to leave old tyres. Geocycle conducted a similar project in Jujuy province in 2018 and it plans to run a similar one in Cordoba province.
Mexico: El Laboratorio de Investigación en Desarrollo Comunitario y Sustentabilidad (LIDECS) has raised the health risks from burning solid waste at cement plants in México state. Jorge Tadeo Vargas, part of the Faculty of Geography of the Autonomous University of Mexico State (UAEM) and a LIDECS representative highlighted the damage caused in Apaxco and Tlalnepantla in México and Hidalgo in Tula at a conference on the issue, according to the Milenio newspaper. Professor Brisa Carrasco of the UAEM Geography department also raised the issue of a lack of regulation and environmental and medical data on the subject.