At Valorsul, what you no longer value and have therefore thrown away becomes a resource again, a raw material that can be transformed into a new cardboard box, a new glass bottle, electricity, fertiliser for agriculture or materials for building a new road.
Visit to the landfill
Landfill

Site In landfill sites, undifferentiated waste is sorted, compacted and covered daily in impermeable cells.

Leachate water treatment plant

Combination of biological and physical-chemical treatment.

Biogas

The biogas produced inside the cells is captured and channelled to the motor-generators.

Motor-generators

The biogas is burnt in motor-generators to produce electricity that we export to the national grid.

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