SIRUSA
Servei d'Incineració dels Residus Urbans S.A.
Jueves, 13 de octubre del 2016
Book of 25 years of SIRUSA
On Thursday 13 October, at 19:30 hours, the Theater Tarragona (Rambla Nova 11, Tarragona) will present the book SIRUSA, 25 years. The event will be attended by Josep Félix Ballesteros (mayor of Tarragona and president of SIRUSA), Josep Poblet (president of the Diputación de Tarragona), Josep M. Tost (director of the Waste Agency of Catalonia), Tomás Carot and Oscar Ramírez (authors of the book) and Manuel Rivera (director of Silva Editorial)
The history of an exemplary company
“SIRUSA, 25 years” despite being an institutional publication commemorating an anniversary, is a very current and interesting work for people and institutions that have the challenge of solving, or should study and evaluate the issue of waste, In our territory and in the international sphere.
The management and disposal of solid urban waste was a growing problem in the main localities of Camp de Tarragona as the 1980s progressed. Neighbors complained about unhealthy and risk-generating landfills. The decision to build a publicly owned plant for incineration with energy recovery, made up of several municipalities constituted in Mancomunidad, was taken with social consensus, despite the context of awareness of the society towards the environmental impact of the facilities of these characteristics.
The SIRUSA plant, which entered service in 1991, during the first 25 years has managed more than 4 million tons of waste. The 3.6 million tonnes recovered have produced 1.2 million MWh of electricity, of which more than 1 million MWh have been sold to the grid. The efficient management, with the added value of research, has made SIRUSA a world reference. This company faces a new stage with the objective of reaching zero residue; That is to say, that all the incoming residues are valued, even the remains of the combustion processes: the ashes. Slags have already become raw material and income rather than expense, so SIRUSA has the lowest rate of recovery plants and waste management.
The context, the evolution, the opinions and the views of the 8 joint municipalities (Tarragona, Reus, Cambrils, Salou, Valls, Vila-seca, Constantine and the Canonja). In short, what represents SIRUSA for the Camp de Tarragona.
The editors of the book have been journalists and writers Tomás Carot (director of the company Premicom, member of the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication and, since 1994, linked to the communication of SIRUSA, author of several books of divulgation and narrative) and Óscar Ramírez (manager of Avanti Comunicación, delegate in Tarragona of the Union of Journalists of Catalonia, has published works of historical and literary scope).
The history of an exemplary company
“SIRUSA, 25 years” despite being an institutional publication commemorating an anniversary, is a very current and interesting work for people and institutions that have the challenge of solving, or should study and evaluate the issue of waste, In our territory and in the international sphere.
The management and disposal of solid urban waste was a growing problem in the main localities of Camp de Tarragona as the 1980s progressed. Neighbors complained about unhealthy and risk-generating landfills. The decision to build a publicly owned plant for incineration with energy recovery, made up of several municipalities constituted in Mancomunidad, was taken with social consensus, despite the context of awareness of the society towards the environmental impact of the facilities of these characteristics.
The SIRUSA plant, which entered service in 1991, during the first 25 years has managed more than 4 million tons of waste. The 3.6 million tonnes recovered have produced 1.2 million MWh of electricity, of which more than 1 million MWh have been sold to the grid. The efficient management, with the added value of research, has made SIRUSA a world reference. This company faces a new stage with the objective of reaching zero residue; That is to say, that all the incoming residues are valued, even the remains of the combustion processes: the ashes. Slags have already become raw material and income rather than expense, so SIRUSA has the lowest rate of recovery plants and waste management.
The context, the evolution, the opinions and the views of the 8 joint municipalities (Tarragona, Reus, Cambrils, Salou, Valls, Vila-seca, Constantine and the Canonja). In short, what represents SIRUSA for the Camp de Tarragona.
The editors of the book have been journalists and writers Tomás Carot (director of the company Premicom, member of the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication and, since 1994, linked to the communication of SIRUSA, author of several books of divulgation and narrative) and Óscar Ramírez (manager of Avanti Comunicación, delegate in Tarragona of the Union of Journalists of Catalonia, has published works of historical and literary scope).