Sunday, September 1, 2013

"Incinerator and health: deepen" - Il Resto del Carlino

Into Modena, August 31, 2013 – A CHECK 360 degree on the quality of the technology used in the on-street Cavazza , in order to clarify once and for all the impact on public health. Promoter the Councillor for health Francesca Maletti , which in recent months has announced plans to go out and apply for the race for mayor, share Pd. It is not a mystery concern on the high number of premature births in our city (placed in relation to pollution from the study ‘moniter’, of the Region and Harp), while other studies are in progress on the scope oncology and respiratory diseases . The table in-depth you should keep in short, in September, under the plan being and Health 2013-2014 has started in J uly.

incinerator, in a nutshell, is discussed and will be discussed. Tonight at 18, the environmental groups held a garrison in the Piazza Grande (open to all), to demonstrate in front of the town hall against the determination of the Province, on the eve of August, opened the disposal of waste also from outside the region in the plant Modena. Act, this, which surprised even the upper floors of the Region, where in the fall will come the new waste plan, aimed at the collection and the consequent reduction of disposal. The President of the Province, Emilio Sabattini, ensures that the Region “there is no controversy after the determination of the Province”, while the regional director of the Democratic Party Luciano Vecchi, remarked, “There are certain decisions that change in this negative reality “. Meanwhile Andrea Leoni, regional director of the PDL, the president asks Vasco Errani : The Province of Modena ha s failed or not the recommendations of the Region? Controversy that the commissioner Maletti addresses with a reasoning behind: “On the topics health and the environment today there is great attention. People expect transparency, intended primarily as involvement in decisions on the incinerator. Beyond the technical question, what happened with the determination of the Province required a frank discussion with the people of Modena. “

The interview

COUNCILLOR MALETTI, the determination of the Province, in addition to the many reactions of Modena, has created discontent in the region.
“I do not want to get into controversy, rather say that we need to address these issues with a wider and a broader view. One thing is certain, by 2020 Modena is called to reach 70% of the collection at the same time the study Moniter informs that only the most advanced technologies allow for incineration very high levels of security. “

Safety for the health of citizens mean?
“That’s right, studies say this. The technologies we are. “

And in our case?
“In our case, I find that we have to go and see. It is true that our plant is equipped with filters and there have been several interventions, but it is also one of the oldest in the region. There are surveys and official data. I pressed the health effects should be discuss ed with the utmost transparency, because I believe it is my duty to discuss it. I repeat, we must go and see, to address the issue from the point of view of health effects. Why do people want safety and we have to give it to him with the utmost transparency. “

In what way?
“In September, we will make a table for further study, where the theme of preterm labor will be addressed. A situation on which you started a discussion in July with the launch of the Health and Welfare Plan, but which now goes in-depth with concrete data. Let’s see any possible connections, without alarmism. “

Incinerator, discussion destined to last a long time …
“On the issue of health and the environment there is more attention than in the past. In Modena we do not have good air quality. We address the problem at 360 °, evaluating the impact of the incinerator, the motorway, the use of the heating. “

About transparency, determines the Province is controversial mainly because the daughter of a very transparent mechanism …
“A determines output 14 August does not help to address these problems such as the lack of communication of the request, although lawful, presented by Hera, with respect to which no one knew practically nothing. Lack of transparency? We say that a path has been vastly underestimated. “

On the contents instead?
“Well, the mayor and the president of Pigi County Sabattini important things they said, specifying that it will not be the starting point for the expansion of the incinerator , making it clear that you do not burn waste from outside the region. Certainly, though, they said later. Essential Information, if they had been explained to Modena in time. If they had done before, if they were made before determining, then it would have a different meaning, would allow a compari son much more calm and effective. ».

The Regional Waste Plan with the coming of that certain guidelines, which aim to gradually overcome incinerators. The plan changes that could lead here?
“In our region the plants are a total of eight, including incinerators and incinerators. We have to reach 70% of differentiated For example, on paper Modena has to grow from 47% to 74%, on the plastic from 28% to 50%. It is precisely the region to tell us that the waste to the incinerator will have to fall by 16% and those in the landfill by 83%. Besides indicating solutions as a collection drive, and I think of a door to door capillary to reach agreements with companies to reduce packaging, the preliminary of the Region is the first paper to put on paper the rethinking of ‘plant needs ‘. Translate: reduction of the plants and at the same time closing some landfills, also present in our province. We need agreements with companies to reduce packaging, implement differentiated separately. Things that highlights the region, who say many administrators Pd from Parma to Reggio and not just the commissioner Maletti, these days every so often accused of making alarmist. “

milestones against which determines the case seems more tied to old logic …
“I can say what you are asking the people of Modena and expressing to me: this is up to the Region and Province to say, of course we need more clarity. The citizens demand it, especially in the field of health. For this reason we must sit at a table to understand which technologies to use our system and what are the best applicable. For what regards to my powers, I’ll do anything because the theme of the incinerator back to being a discussion that is as open as possible. Without hesitation and with the utmost frankness. When the proper administration takes a step back, born misinformation and scaremongering. “

Int o Francesco Vecchi

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