This morning, lightning struck the Meia Serra Solid Waste Treatment Station.
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São Vicente residents are in uproar in the way that the Ginjas area is being used as a rubbish dump.
At 11:50 this morning the Municipal Fire Department received an emergency phone call due to a boiler incident at the Meia Serra Solid Waste Treatment Centre. One man has already been taken to hospital due to the severity of his injuries.
A maintenance employee from Lisbon, who is working at the Meia Serra Solid Waste Treatment Station (Madeira), has tested positive for Covid-19, forcing the site to activate their contingency plan.
According to an estimate prepared by the Regional Directorate for the Environment and Climate Change (DRAAC), the global production of waste in 2019 in the Autonomous Region of Madeira (RAM) was approximately 285.8 thousand tonnes, an increase of more than 61.9 thousand tonnes compared with the previous year.