The “Wooly Sustainable” initiative will allow up to 175 tonnes of wool to be used annually for the manufacture of sustainable products.

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The Sustainable Tourism Tax encourages

The councillor for the Environment and Territory, Miquel Mir, and the director general of Waste and Environmental Education, Sebastià Sansó, visited the Recoart facilities on Thursday, where a project is being carried out to create sustainable products made from wool waste. This action has received a grant of 74,576.63 euros through the call to promote a social and circular economy, sustainably manage tourist waste and create jobs, financed with funds from the Sustainable Tourism Tax.

The project aims to provide training to sheep farmers on the island to preserve the quality and value of the wool, the creation of sustainable products made from processed wool, which are marketable, and the creation of skilled jobs for people with disabilities and people at risk of social exclusion.

Councillor Mir praised the proposal, as “it is a great example of how, from small projects, the whole machinery of the circular economy is set in motion, as it benefits the primary sector of the islands and turns waste into a resource”.

Through the “Wooly Sustainable” initiative, up to 175 tonnes per year can be treated, using 75% of the waste to create products.

In total, the call for proposals, with a budget of 1.3 million euros, has subsidised 14 projects worth 1,027,140.37 euros and includes five categories. In the first category, product reuse, three projects have been subsidised, as in the category for the preparation for reuse of waste. In the composting and other biological transformation processes category, two projects have been subsidised, while in the waste recycling category, three projects have been subsidised. Finally, three actions are subsidised to develop R&D&I projects in the field of waste in the framework of the circular economy.