Tracjusa, the renovated Juneda slurry treatment plant (Garrigues) that will use a new gasification system produced with solid fuels from urban waste, will begin operating in the first quarter of 2027. This was announced today by the managers of the GAP livestock cooperative, which with the Griñó Group is co-owned by another group that requires the combustion of domestic waste supplied by Griñó (up to a maximum of 45,000 tons per year).

Barcelona closes the first half of the year on the right track in terms of air pollution: nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) remain low after 2024 where historic lows were reached and the positive trend of recent years is confirmed. In fact, a decrease of between 2 and 14% is observed at the monitoring stations distributed throughout the city compared to the values from a year ago.

Catalonia's High Court ruling against Barcelona's low-emissions zone (LEZ) have caused surprise and incomprehension, and not only in the administration, which is already working on an appeal. Since hundreds of cities across Europe have implemented similar measures to combat pollution, some a decade before the Catalan capital, how is it possible that a court decision urges the measure to be overturned and not only, in any case, to amend some of its parts? This is what air quality experts, scientists and citizens' organisations consulted by ARA had to say, going over main points of a resolution which they criticise for overlooking the right to health and containing "technical errors".

European cities could avoid 114,000 premature deaths each year if they complied with the new air quality recommendations presented by the World Health by the World Health Organization (WHO) in September 2021. A study conducted by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) has compared the impact of the new recommendations with those in force since 2005 and which, according to previous studies, already prevented up to 51,000 deaths per year in European cities if they were complied with.