On Monday, March 17th, 4th-year ESO students from IES José María Infantes and 5th-year students from CEIP Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero, both in Utrera, visited the Montemarta Cónica MSW Treatment Center. Staff from the Aborgase company showed them around and explained the recycling efforts carried out with various types of urban waste. The students understood the problems that arise when waste is not properly separated and became aware of the need to separate the organic fraction to produce quality compost. Both schools are participating in the Citizen Science project “We Recycle Compost from organic fraction of selectively collected waste in Urban Gardens (RECICOMPHUERTOS)” and are conducting trials in their school gardens with MSW compost from municipalities in the Sierra de Cádiz, where door-to-door organic matter collection is carried out.This project is carried out in collaboration with the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology – Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (project reference FCT-22-18403) and this activity has been co-financed by the Grant for scientific dissemination activities of the VII Own Research Plan of the University of Seville.
Photo 1 Rafael López explains the RECICOMP-HUERTOS project to the students
Photo 2 Students from the José María Infantes Secondary School and the Serafín y Joaquín Álvarez Quintero school in Utrera during the explanation by technicians from the ABORGASE company of the work carried out at the Montemarta-Cónica urban waste treatment plant