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The Environmental Services area handles the management and treatment of urban wastes as a specialty. It carries out street cleaning, the collection and transport of urban waste (“clean point” installations and transfer stations) and the treatment of urban waste by means of various kinds of processes: packaging plants, sorting and composting plants, biomethanization of the organic fraction, energy recovery with electrical energy generation (both from biogas coming from dumps and from biomethanization, and from the rejection fraction from the sorting plants), elimination of waste in controlled urban and industrial waste dumps, management of special waste (oils, hospital and industrial waste), integrated management of the water cycle and urban gardening.

The ACS Group, through its company Urbaser, S.A., is the leader in the management of solid urban waste treatment plants in Spain and has undertaken significant projects abroad.
The combination of treatments in the plants with recovery of materials and generation of electrical energy, plus the degasification of waste dumps has meant a saving of CO2 equivalent to approximately 5.2 million tons over the year.

The total installed power in the processes which generate electricity from urban waste is 179 MW. This generated 674.62 GWh and exported 527.6 GWh to the electricity grid.

The following projects are worth mentioning:

• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003

Projects

- 39 Plants for the pretreatment of solid urban waste with a capacity of 6,100,000 tons/year.

- 4 Energy recovery plants with a treatment capacity of 1,081,000 tons/year.

- 3 Energy recovery plants under construction with a capacity of 832,000 tons/year.

- 1 planned Energy recovery plant with a capacity of 160,000 tons/year.

- 12 Biomethanization plants with a treatment capacity of 782,312 tons/year.

- 7 Biomethanization plants under construction with a capacity of 474,948 tons/year.

- 1 planned Biomethanization plant with a capacity of 50,000 tons/year.

- 44 Composting plants with a treatment capacity of 2,280,665 tons/year.

- 46 Controlled waste dumps with an elimination capacity of 7,335,000 tons/year.

- 50 Transfer plants with a capacity of 6,388,600 tons/year.