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Lanzarote Airport 2010 Environmental Management Report

3 Overview 4 Introduction 6 Environmental Management System 8 Environmental policy 9 Environmental principles 10 Management review 11 Direct and potential environmental aspects 17 Goals and objectives: environmental management program 20 Water management 25 Control of atmospheric emissions 26 Waste management 31 Storage of hazardous materials 32 Control of consumption 45 Flora and fauna 47 Environmental classroom

Lanzarote Airport

2010 Environmental Management Report

Overview

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A top value at Lanzarote Airport is its commitment to provide quality to its clients, employees and to society at large. Holding a preferential place within the framework of this commitment is a concern for the environment, especially considering the delicate nature of the island of Lanzarote, declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1993.

Work was started at the airport in late 1999 on imple-menting an Environmental Management System (EMS). In August 2001, AENOR certified the airport’s EMS in accordance with the UNE-EN ISO 14001 Standard, thus ratifying the integration of environmental management as part of the complex process of airport management. This system provides order and consistency to the way Aena’s and the airport’s environmental concerns are addressed, in addition to ensuring compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations.

The year 2001 also saw work begin on implementing a Quality Management System (QMS), which was eventu-ally certified by AENOR in 2003 in accordance with the UNE-EN ISO 9001 Standard.

The audits to renew the certificates for the QMS and EMS were conducted in May 2009, resulting in highly satisfactory results. Thus began the third cycle for both programs, which serves to evidence the maturity of both management systems.

In 2010, the Lanzarote Airport, along with a small group of Spanish airports, took the first steps toward the imple-mentation of an UNE-EN 16001 energy management system for its Terminal 1 building. Also in 2010, on the occasion of World Environment Day, the president of Aena publicly stated from Lanzarote that the Lanzarote Airport would spearhead Aena’s Green Airport project, paving the way for improved energy efficiency, energy savings and reduced CO

2 emissions.

The Lanzarote Airport’s EMS that is the subject of this report encompasses and monitors every activity with a potential direct or indirect effect on the environment and promotes objectives intended to achieve conti-nuous environmental improvement.

Thus, yet again this year we are making available the results of the airport’s environmental management. We appreciate the cooperation and efforts of all air-port employees and of those companies that operate within the airport in achieving these objectives. We at the airport also ask once again for the participation of every person, entity and company involved in some way with sustaining the airport’s activity and in protecting the environment, and encourage everyone to send any suggestions and proposals that could contribute to the continuous improvement of the airport’s environmental management.

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Introducción

Airports are complex centers, with highly diverse facili-ties and rigorous security measures established by the European Union through its regulations. Airports wit-ness the exchange between ground and air transpor-tation for passenger, cargo and mail traffic, requiring the services and activities of a wide range of specialized companies.

The Lanzarote Airport, located on the island’s east coast, has a surface area of 1,418,000 m2. It is within the municipality of San Bartolome, 5 km away from the capital, Arrecife. It has two runways, which give it a stated capacity for 22 movements an hour, and two terminal buildings, one for inter-island flights (Termi-nal T2) and another for all other flights (Terminal T1). These terminals can handle 5,400 passengers during peak hours. It has a parking apron for aircraft with a capacity for 24 commercial and 12 general aviation aircraft. A taxiway provides access to the 2,400-meter long, 45-meter wide runway. In addition to commer-cial flights, the Lanzarote Airport is also used by the military aerodrome, with which it shares various ser-vices.

The island’s appeal as a tourist destination has allowed the airport to become Spain’s ninth in terms of pas-senger traffic since opening to civil traffic in 1946. In 2010 the airport handled 4,114,725 passengers, which gives some idea of the expansion witnessed at the air-port, considering that the island’s resident population is below 140,000.

Ever since its opening, the airport has had to undergo important infrastructure and management changes. The-se have allowed the airport to adapt to the increased pas-senger traffic and to the growing demand for services.

In order to meet the increased demand for air transport while providing the highest levels of quality and safety, new airside and landside infrastructure is being developed and planned that will ensure the highest level of service.

This workload must be confronted while bearing in mind any potential environmental impacts from airport activities, hence the need to maintain and improve the environmen-tal quality system so as to ensure proper environmental performance and compliance with applicable laws.

2010 STATISTICS

Movements 46,668

Cargo 3,787,434 Kg

Passengers 4,939,632

Aircraft 46,668

Aena employees 162

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Environmental Management System

The EMS at Lanzarote Airport is based on the UNE-EN ISO 14004:2004 Standard, Environmental Management Systems: Requirements and guidance for their use.

The EMS serves to facilitate compliance with existing legislation, to prevent accident and incident situations and to reduce costs while improving process efficiency. This system combines and monitors all those activities that could have a direct or indirect effect on the envi-ronment and promotes a set of objectives whose aim is the continuous improvement of the environmental management. Each objective has execution timelines, thus making for a dynamic system.

Periodic checks are made of the different companies operating out of the airport and of the various facilities and construction work that are susceptible to events or activities not in accordance with the airport’s environ-mental policy. Any violations of the requirements reflec-ted in either the environmental clauses in the contracts signed by those companies or with the various EMS pro-cedures result in a non-conformity that remains open until the deficiency is corrected, an investigation of the causes that originated it is conducted and the necessary measures are put in place to prevent a reoccurrence.

All of the EMS activities involving the management, organizational structure, activity planning, responsibili-ties, practices, procedures, processes and resources for developing, implementing, carrying out, reviewing and maintaining current the airport’s environmental policy are documented and recorded. This allows said activities to be located quickly and facilitates their inspection and review as needed, as well as their approval by authorized personnel.

The EMS provides for greater control over environmental risks, offers greater guarantees of regulatory complian-ce, clarifies functions and responsibilities and serves to give companies a competitive edge to better care for their clients.

The scope of application of the EMS encompasses the activities involved in managing and maintaining the air-port facilities and infrastructure, as well as all the services provided by the airport. It also includes tracking the envi-ronmental performance of those companies that engage in activities within the airport complex.

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The EMS documentation includes:

Environmental and Energy Policy: widely dissemina-ted within the organization, this policy reflects the general commitment to protect the environment and conveys the organization’s environmental principles so as to improve the airport’s environmental and energy management.

EMS Manual: which offers a summary of the general operation of the system.

EMS Procedures: which establish the means for ensu-ring compliance with the requirements and operational criteria of the reference standard and for tracking the resulting environmental aspects. They assign responsi-bilities and periodicities to each function described.

Operating instructions: rely on a procedure and are developed for those cases requiring that specific actions be detailed.

Records: documents that provide proof of the actions taken and allow for the level of compliance with legal requirements and with the EMS itself to be analyzed..

MANUAL

PROCEDURES

INSTRUCTIONS

RECORDS

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Environmental policy

Aena, as a leader in providing air transport services through its airports and air navigation system, is aware of its commitment to society to protect the environment and to contribute to the sustainability of air transport, and doing so within a framework of safety, quality and efficiency.

In keeping with this responsibility, Aena has set as one of its goals that of excellence in the provision of the services assigned to it. To this end, and within the framework of the Spanish Strategy for Sustainable Development, Aena is mandated to apply those mea-sures that allow for the sustainable development of air transport by weighing the social, environmental and financial costs and benefits to obtain a positive result for society.

Along these lines, Aena’s commitment to the environ-ment has been under constant and continuous deve-lopment, with the definition of a set of programs and actions and the progressive increase in the resources allocated so as to achieve its environmental goals. All of this is expressed in accordance with a constantly chan-ging environmental policy that has taken root in our organization’s collective consciousness.

Following the revision and updating of the policies, the airport adopted the Environmental and energy Policy approved by the President and Managing Director of Aena in June 2010, and which is applicable to all Aena airports. The airport has integrated this policy into its own Quality, Environmental and Energy Manual, with employees being notified through the September 2010 issue of Aena’s magazine. The policy is also posted throughout the facilities.

The Quality Policy adopted by the airport is that appro-ved by Aena Airport Management in July 2009, and which is based on the European EFQM Excellence Model, this excellence being understood as the ability to achieve and maintain outstanding results over time for all of our stakeholders. This policy emphasizes the intention of satisfying our clients’ needs and expecta-tions and addressing their concerns for the continuous improvement in the quality of the services provided, a concern that is not only a Management objective, but the responsibility of all airport employees. This concern involves both the quality of the services and the quality of the processes associated with said services.

The environmental variable is present in every aspect of our daily activities: planning, project construction and provision of services. By using suitable indicators, we can define preventive, protective, compensatory and corrective measures to minimize any potential impact from airport activities, air navigation and infrastructure development, thus ensuring higher levels of environ-mental quality, economic progress and the preservation of natural resources.

In keeping with this environmental commitment, the implementation of new environmental management systems is being promoted at airport and air naviga-tion centers. These systems are based on internatio-nally recognized norms that allow for the awarding of environmental certifications. In particular, as part of our commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, we are striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change by making the most of our energy resources and by phasing in the use of renewable ener-gies as permitted by operational requirements.

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This has all led Aena to establish a commitment for envi-ronmental excellence that meets social and environmental demands and will ensure the sustainable development or air transportation in keeping with the following:

Environmental principles

To respect and protect the environment as a central tenet in the management of those activities entrusted to Aena in the area of airports and air navigation, as well as in the development of aviation infrastructure and of commercial spaces and services.

To make air travel compatible with preserving the environment such that today’s actions do not com-promise the quality of life of future generations, thus promoting sustainable development.

To establish procedures for learning of and updating the legal environmental and energy requirements applicable to Aena’s activities and for complying with them.

To implement an Environmental Management System at each center that is compatible with this environ-mental and energy policy, and which allows for the periodic definition of environmental goals and ob-jectives, as well as for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of its level of compliance so as to assure constant improvement and the prevention of conta-mination.

To have available the information and resources ne-cessary to propose and achieve constant improvement objectives involving energy efficiency as a cornerstone for reducing CO2 emissions, as part of Aena’s strategy for sustainable development.

To promote actions intended to minimize sound le-vels and that allow for preserving the quality of life in neighborhoods near the airport.

To use the technical and economic means available to prevent air pollution that may be associated with Aena’s activities, while minimizing chemical emissions and establishing suitable testing, monitoring and co-rrective mechanisms.

To promote the reuse, recycling and management of waste in a way that is environmentally friendly.

To streamline the consumption of energy and natural resources through energy efficiency and the gradual utilization of renewable energies.

To behave transparently with the public agencies, ins-titutions and communities involved in Aena’s activity and to cooperate closely with them so as to prevent any potential environmental impact that may result from those activities associated with air transporta-tion.

To inform all of Aena’s employees, contractors and concessionaires of its Environmental Policy and to make it available to our clients and to the rest of so-ciety.

To promote awareness in our staff through training programs on the importance of the correct conduct of their activities, encouraging their participation in achieving our goals.

To periodically revise the Environmental Policy to meet the organization’s new objectives, adapting it to new needs as they arise.

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Every year, Airport Management, in concert with the Quality and Environmental Committee:

Conducts a documented review of the EMS to ensure its continuing adequacy and effectiveness.

Considers the need for new goals and other elements in the EMS stemming from audits of the EMS, from changing circumstances and from its commitment to continuous improvement.

Evaluates environmental performance.

Every department and section within the airport is res-ponsible for achieving and maintaining the levels of envi-ronmental protection required at the lowest possible cost and in coordination with the rest of the organization.

It is management’s responsibility to approve the EMS manual and the environmental policy, to review the EMS at the scheduled times and to provide both the human and financial resources needed to comply with the poli-cy, its goals and objectives and with the environmental laws applicable to airport activities.

The Quality and Environmental Committee is respon-sible for reviewing the EMS documentation (manual, procedures, processes, environmental and quality ma-nagement programs, non-conformities, etc.) and decide which goals to include as definitive. It must also provide solutions to any conflicts that may arise.

Management review

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Direct and potential environmental aspects

The direct and potential environmental aspects asso-ciated with airport activities are analyzed annually, first so as to identify them and second, to evaluate them in order to determine those that are significant based on established criteria.

An environmental aspect is understood as any element of the airport’s activities or services that may interact with the environment. Within these environmental as-pects, we can differentiate among:

Direct environmental aspect: that resulting from the activities or services that take place at the airport under normal and abnormal operating conditions (e.g. stoppa-ge or start-up of a facility), but always under pre-set con-ditions, that is, resulting from the normal or planned con-duct of the activities or services included within the EMS.

Potential environmental aspect: that resulting from the airport’s activities or services when stemming from the improper operation of the facilities or equipment or as a consequence of an emergency or risk situation.

Indirect environmental aspect: generated by the ac-tivities of third parties working on or at the airport fa-cilities.

The airport has established a method for identifying all the environmental aspects of its activity, both those de-rived from normal conditions (direct) and which have a real impact, and from emergency conditions (potential), whose impact depends on the eventual consequences of the emergency.

Once the environmental aspects are identified, they are evaluated so that they can be comparatively ranked, thus making it possible to identify those with a signifi-cant environmental impact.

The direct environmental aspects are classified into va-rious groups based on their effects. Each group is gra-ded depending on several criteria:

AREA OF CONCERN ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

WasteType / Hazard posedWhere dischargedAmount

Consumption of natural resourcesNature Frequency Amount

EmissionsNatureFrequency / maintenanceAmount / toxicity

Effluent dischargesComposition / pollution loadFrequency

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A series of environmental indicators have been establis-hed for the amounts released that allow for monitoring over time and comparison with a standard value. By using specific and not total amounts (e.g. liters of fuel used per kilometer traveled in a car, water or electricity consumed), the indicators can be compared with a set standard that is defined as the arithmetic average from previous years. An increase or decrease can then be de-tected that takes into account a corresponding increase or decrease in the generating activity, enabling its pro-gress over time to be monitored.

The potential aspects are assessed based on other crite-ria, namely, the probability of occurrence and the seve-rity of the consequences.

Once assessed (i.e. once the aspects are ranked), a hie-rarchy is established to consider the significant aspects and separate the direct from the potential. This yields the direct significant aspects and the potential signifi-cant aspects.


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ASPECTOS POTENCIALES ÁREAS DE POSIBLE INCIDENCIAPROBA-BILIDAD

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Risk from rupture of tanks LARGER than 3 m3 Hazardous waste 1 3 3 NO

Risk from rupture of tanks SMALLER than 3 m3 Hazardous waste 1 1 1 NO

Risk of R-22 leak Atmospheric emissions 1 3 3 NO

Risk of R 407-C, R 134-A or other refrigerant leak

Atmospheric emissions 1 1 1 NO

Risk of fire in airport buildingsHazardous, inert, urban waste, atmospheric emissions, pollution of water and soil

1 3 3 NO

Risk of hazardous material or contaminant leak

Hazardous waste, Atmospheric emissions,pollution of water and soil

2 2 4 NO

Risk from uncontrolled fault in EDAR Pollution of water and soil 1 3 3 NO

Riesgo por fallo incontrolado de la EDAR Pollution of water and soil 1 3 3 NO

Risk to EDAR from flooding Pollution of water and soil 1 3 3 NO

Risk from uncontrolled fault in the EDARAProblems in the EDAR =Pollution of water and soil

1 3 3 NO

Risk from fault or rupture in OWS >3 m3 Discharge of polluted water 1 3 3 NO

Risk from fault or rupture in OWS = or < 3m3

Discharge of polluted water 1 1 1 NO

Risk from fire in tanks LARGER than 3 m3 Atmospheric emissions, hazardous waste,spills

1 3 3 NO

Risk from fire in tanks SMALLER than 3 m3 Atmospheric emissions, hazardous waste,spills

1 1 1 NO

Risk from rupture in potable water piping Loss of natural resource: potable water 1 1 1 NO

Risk from rupture in potable water tank Loss of natural resource: potable water 1 1 1 NO

The list below details the environmental aspects identified in 2010, along with their corresponding assessments:

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DIRECT ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS

ASPECT GENERATING ACTIVITY SIGNIF

Glass (not packaging) General services NE

NON-RADIOACTIVE smoke detectors Maintenance of fire detection system NE

Expired Aena medications Medical services NE

EDARA sludge Waste water treatment Y

Scrap metal Equipment and facility maintenance NO

Organic and other non-sorted urban waste General services NO

Wood, pallets General services NO

Paper-cardboard General services NO

Packaging (cans, plastic, cartons, etc.) General services NO

Glass (packaging) General services NO

Plant waste Landscaping NO

Toner and ink cartridges General services NO

Tires Vehicle maintenance NO

EDAR sludge Waste water treatment NO

Sludge from oil-water separators (OWS) Treatment of firefighting and rain water NE

Material soaked with hazardous materials Clean-up of hazmat spills NE

Batteries found in the airport Left over by companies NE

Ni – Cd batteries Replacement of radiotelephone equipment NE

Empty HW plastic containers Miscellaneous airport maintenance NE

Disused vehicles Replacement of vehicles NE

RADIOACTIVE smoke DETECTORS Maintenance of fire detection system NE

Antifreeze Vehicle/diesel generator maintenance NE


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Button batteries – Airport Maintenance / left by users NE

Discarded paint Miscellaneous airport maintenance NE

Material soaked with HW. RAGS, PAPERS, ETC. Vehicle/diesel generator maintenance Y

Aerosols General services Y

Electronic computer equipment General services Y

Hazardous batteries – Airport Left by airport users Y

Batteries – Aena Vehicle/diesel generator maintenance Y

Used filters Vehicle/diesel generator maintenance Y

USI batteries Maintenance of USI NO

Empty HW metallic containers Miscellaneous airport maintenance NO

Used oil Vehicle/diesel generator maintenance NO

Fluorescent and other bulbs with HW Lighting systems maintenance NO

Electronic non-computer equipment with HW General services NO

WATER USED FOR IRRIGATION Irrigation of landscaped areas Y

WATER USED IN DESALINATING PLANT General services Y

TOTAL WATER USAGE MINUS WATER USED FOR IRRIG + FFS + COs + N.A. General services Y

DIESEL USED in non-FFS trucks General services Y

DIESEL USED IN ALL stationary diesel generators Emergency electrical supply Y

DIESEL/KEROSENE/GAS used in FFS drills Firefighting service (FFS) drills Y

TOTAL E. E. USAGE MINUS USAGE IN COs. General services NO

GASOLINE USED in vehicles General services NO

DIESEL USED in FFS trucks (PER HOUR) Firefighting service NO

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NETWORK WATER USED General services NO

WATER USED during live-fire FFS drills Firefighting service drills NO

TOTAL WATER USED by FFS All FFS activities NO

PAPER USED General airport operations (offices) NO

OFFSITE TREATED WATER for irrigation Irrigation of landscaped areas NO

No. 1 EDG EMISSIONS Emergency electrical supply NO





No. 1 mobile EDG EMISSIONS Maintenance service NO

EMISSIONS from all diesel vehicles General and firefighting services NO

EMISSIONS from gasoline vehicles General services NO

Emissions from FFS drills - KEROSENE FFS drills NO

Rain water effluent Removal of rain water NO

Discharge of waste water for irrigation Waste water treatment and purification DS

Objective / Responsibility/ Start-End date GOAL Degree of completion

Improve external information regarding the airport’s environmental management

Responsibility:Management representative for Quality and the Environment.Timeline:March 2010 – october 2010.

Prepare an airport Environmental Mana-gement bulletin that includes the most significant aspects of the EMS.

At the end of 2009, work was started to gather and interpret data in preparation to write an Environmental Management Report, which was finished in June.

Deliver draft to Central Services.Once the report was completed, it was reviewed and delivered to Central Services in the same month.

Publication of report and delivery to airports, companies that work at the Lanza-rote Airport and to individuals.

The paper copies of the 2009 Environmen-tal Management Report were received in August and distributed throughout both terminals. This year a digital version of the report is being prepared for distribution throughout the airport network and to local institutions and companies.

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The environmental management program is the docu-ment that specifies the objectives, goals and actions and defines the means available for achieving them. It also assigns responsibility for each objective and action and a timeline for attaining said objectives. The objectives listed in the environmental management program are included in the airport’s main management documents:

Operating plan (annual).Business plan (quadrennial).Multi-year action plan (annual).

The objectives are defined annually and must conform with the environmental policy and the significant envi-ronmental aspects identified.

The objectives established in 2010 are shown below:

Goals and objectives: Environmental Management Program

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Desarrollar acciones para reducir el consumo de energía eléctrica en el aeropuerto.

Responsable: Representante de la Dirección en materia de Calidad y Medioambiente/ Jefe del Departamento de Ingeniería y MantenimientoPlazo: Marzo 2010 – enero 2012.

Meeting to schedule performance of energy study of Terminal 1.

The meeting to schedule the energy study of Terminal 1 was held on 6 April.

Conduct energy study of terminal 1 and determine possible percentage of reduction

in electricity use.

In May the final inspections were made to gather data for the performance of the energy study. A temporary joint venture between Tecnoma and Creara conducted

the study, which was completed in December.

Meeting to assess the viability of implementing an Energy Management

System (EMS)

A meeting was held on 6 April to evaluate the viability of implementing the EMS

Implementation of Energy Management System (EMS)

The EMS documentation was prepared once the Energy Efficiency analysis of

Terminal 1 are complete. In September, the documentation on the Energy

Management System is integrated into the current system. Future EMS personnel

takes an introductory course on the system. The 2011 dates for Internal and

external certification audits of the Energy Management System are specified in accordance with UNE-EN ISO 16001.

Meeting to evaluate the feasibility of an innovative technical project to install a

solar energy powered cooling plant.

A meeting was held on 6 April to discuss the implementation of the project. It was

determined that the most suitable location for the equipment was the Environmental Classroom. The design information needed for the project is currently being gathered.

Implementation of the solar-powered cooling project.

No news has been received from the company handling the project.

Replacement of lighting in Terminal 1.The lighting in the airport’s Terminal 1 was

replaced in June.

Goals and objectives: Environmental Management Program

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Reduce water usage at the airport.

Responsibility:Management representative for Quality and the Environment / Chief of the Engineering and Maintenance Department / Operations Department.Timeline:March 2010 – february 2011.

Actions to improve the water pumping system (install new flow meters to improve

monitoring and gather data in order to estimate reduction percentages)

Activities to improve the water pumping system were completed in June.

Most of the flow meters had been installed by the end of the year. This goal’s timeline

was briefly extended into 2011. Actual usage data are available and actions intended to reduce the usage that is

strictly attributable to Aena can now be undertaken.

Reconfigure energy supply to pump roomThe electrical supply to the pumping room

was reconfigured in June.

Upgrade and clean water network This upgrade was completed in June.

Cover at least 50% of airport landscaped area with drought-resistant plants

This goal was exceeded since 100% of the plants purchased were of drought-resistant

varieties.

Perform a comparative study (irrigation water used vs. no. of times the treated water tank is requested to be emptied

times the tank’s capacity)

The study could not be conducted since it was deemed ineffective to the set goal

of reducing water usage, since it was verified that having landscaping personnel communicate by telephone with the water

supplier was much more practical)

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Water management

Waste water

The installation of a waste water treatment plant (EDAR in Spanish) at the airport was authorized pursuant to Resolution 003/99 of 8 November 1999 of the Lanza-rote Island Water Council. This authorization is valid for fifteen years. On 27/10/05, and under Resolution 123/05 of the Lanzarote Island Water Council, a permit was issued to expand the EDAR.

Over the course of 2010, and as required by the EDAR permit, quarterly results of the analysis of the water output at this facility were submitted.

Pursuant to Resolution 63/04 of 2004 of the Lanzaro-te Island Water Council on the reuse of treated water, only 100% reclaimed water was used to irrigate green

areas of the airport. Reports detailing the analyses of the reclaimed irrigation water were submitted monthly during 2010.

The water from the plant is processed through a screw press, after which it is sent through a degreasing and oil separation phase. This is followed by a decanting and digestion process in two Emscher tanks. At this point, the water is separated from the sludge and is passed through a recirculating bacteria bed and then through a biodisc system. The final step in the secondary pha-se is a clarifier. The clarified water is pumped from an accumulation tank through 50- and 20-micron filters. Once this microfiltration process is complete, the water is chlorinated and exposed to ultraviolet light before being stored in the tanks from which it is pumped for irrigation use.

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The volume of water treated at the airport’s processing plant in 2010 was 55,929 m3, 48.24% (18,452 m3) more than in the previous year.

Certain violations in excess of the legal limits set by the Lanzarote Island Water Council were recorded in 2010 in some of the parameters analyzed in the water output by the purifying process.

These violations are included in the corresponding non-conformity issued by the airport and which is being clo-sely monitored.

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Rain water

The airport is authorized to discharge its rain water through a drainage pipe into public ocean waters. This authorization considers that since the unpolluted rain water is discharged at an undetermined frequency and volume into the ocean, it would be inappropriate to es-tablish restrictions in terms of the qualitative limits of the discharge and of its effects on the environment, since there are none.

This permit was issued on 11 November 2003 and is valid for thirty years, unless any work or modification result in a considerable change to the initial project, in which case this must be communicated to the Canaries Council on the Environment and Spatial Planning. This discharge per-mit includes the payment of a special fee, the payment of which is up to date.

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Control of atmospheric emissions

The main potential sources of atmospheric pollution stemming from Aena’s activity at the Lanzarote Air-port are the power plant generators, the vehicles and the climate control equipment.

The generators are only used if the airport’s is cut off from the grid. Power plant personnel monitor the run time of the three emergency generators (EDG) and the two uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) at the airport.

As for the airport vehicles, all passed their required tech-nical inspections.

Regarding the HVAC equipment, the airport has the proper start-up permit for the HVAC facilities, which are maintained as required by the Spain’s Regulation on Indoor HVAC Systems and by the manufacturer.

Days of operation: 366 366 days x 24 hours = 8,784 hours // 5% de 8,784 hours = 439.2 hours

The generators are mainly run during maintenance tests performed to ensure they will work properly if needed. These five power supplies do not constitute a systematic source of pollution since their total run time is limited to 439.2 hours (5% of the power plant’s operating time), meaning that five-year inspections of their emissions are unnecessary. The power supplies are still maintained properly and in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.

The table below shows the hours of operation for the generators in 2010:

The refrigerant used previously was, for the most part, R-22, with the exception of some free-standing equip-ment that uses R-410. Aena is cognizant of the prohibi-tions on the use of pure HCFC to maintain and recharge existing cooling and air conditioning systems after Dec-ember 2009, which is why those systems that rely on the refrigerant R-22 were phased out and replaced with R-410 systems.

GENERATOR TOTAL RUN TIME 2010

CAT 1 10

CAT 2 10.2

CAT 3 10

CONT 1 54.1

CONT 2 20.3

TOTAL 104.6<< 439.2

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Waste management

Non-hazardous waste

The urban waste generated at the airport is stored un-der adequate conditions in the containers suited for this type of waste. The airport has recycling containers on both the air and land sides. In addition to these contai-ners, there are also containers and compactors for this waste at the waste drop-off point. The storage time ne-ver exceeds two years, since the waste is picked up at very short time intervals.

Urban waste (organic trash, plastic, paper and card-board, glass, tires, scrap metal, sludge from the EDAR) is picked up at the airport by a company that is registered with the Government of the Canaries as an authorized handler of non-hazardous waste. After its temporary storage at the airport’s recycling center, the waste is taken to an authorized landfill or waste manager. The amount of waste that is handled is tracked monthly by the airport and a statement recording how much was-te is generated is sent annually to the Environmental Council of the Canaries.

Since it operates a treatment plant, the airport has been registered with the Government of the Canaries as a

producer of purifier sludge, as required by law, since 2002. A statement is sent the Environmental Council of the Canaries annually listing the amount of sludge that is generated.

As for inert waste, given that the majority of construc-tion at the airport is carried out by external contractors, it is these companies that are responsible for the proper handling of the inert waste that is generated. Even so, any inert waste that may be generated at the airport from maintenance activities is delivered by the company contracted by the airport to an authorized landfill.

In 2010, a total of 1,074,696 kg of non-hazardous was-te was generated, 18.47% more than in 2009. Of this waste, 69% (745,500 kg) corresponded to urban was-te, 7.21% less than in 2009, which indicates improved sorting despite the overall increase in the amount of waste generated.

The remaining 31% (329,196 kg) was non-hazardous segregated waste, most of this being plant waste, which accounted for 43.40% of the total segregated urban waste, followed by paper and cardboard at 22.39%, scrap metal at 8.12% and wood at 7.89%.

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1,000,000

900,000

800,000

700,000

600,000

500,000

400,000

300,000

200,000

100,000

2008 2009 2010

Comparison of segregated and unsegregated urban wasteData for 2011 are incomplete and not included

Unsegregated wasteSegregated waste

911.140

212.466 208.427

329.196

667.780745.500

PERCENTAGES OF THE VARIOUS TYPES OF SEGREGATED URBAN WASTE

PLANT

INERT

CARDBOARD

TIRES WOOD

SCRAP METAL

SLUDGE GLASS

PLASTIC 43.40

22.39

8,12

7.89

8.12

3.71

4.92

0.47

7.51

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Waste management

WASTE GENERATED20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000 120,000 140,000 160,000

TIRES

INERT

PLASTIC

SLUDGE

GLASS

SCRAP METAL

CARDBOARD

PLANT WASTE

WOOD

AMOUNTS OF THE VARIOUS TYPES OF SEGREGATED URBAN WASTE

20092008

2010

15,640

91,980

56,580

26,870

26,870

7,457

8,000

1,900

1,900

21,780

70,580

69,720

23,220

17,060

2,306

7,800

7,800

0

25,960

142,860

73,720

25,960

5,226

24,720

12,220

16,200

1,550

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Hazardous waste (HW)

Numerous activities that take place at the airport gene-rate hazardous waste that is dangerous to the environ-ment and requires special handling.

The airport is registered as a low-volume producer of hazardous waste with the Canaries Council on the En-vironment and Spatial Planning. Currently. The airport generates the following types of hazardous waste: used oil, oil filters, contaminated absorbent material, fluo-rescent bulbs, contaminated plastic and metal contai-ners, lead and other batteries, electronic waste (with hazardous components) and sludge from the oil-water separators.

The airport has a waste drop-off point designated for the temporary storage of this type of waste, which is

handled by a company certified as a handler of hazardo-us waste by the Council on the Environment and Spatial Planning. The HW is segregated in containers suited to the nature of each type of waste. These containers are properly identified and are stored in an area under a roof that is paved with impermeable flooring and pro-perly labeled.

In 2010, a total of 3,252 kg of hazardous waste was handled, 41% less than the previous year. The main de-crease was in the amount of used oil handled, which fell by 93% (3,704 kg).

There was also a significant drop (41%) in the amount of contaminated containers and of oil filters (14%). In contrast, there was an increase in the number of pressurized contai-ners (176%), batteries (146%), absorbent material (60%), vehicle batteries (74%) and fluorescent bulbs (57%).

AMOUNTS (IN KILOGRAMS) AND TYPES OF HW GENERATED IN 2010

Absorbent material

Pilas

Contaminated containers

Button batteriesFluorescent bulbs

Oil filters

Press. cont.Oil

Batteries

2.01

3.38

4.77

0.0

14.44

34.46

9.36

8.55

22.63

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Waste management

WASTE GENERATED500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 4,500

FLUORESCENT BULBS

BATTERIES

VEHICLE BATTERIES

PRESS. CONT.

OIL

OIL FILTERS

CONTAM. CONTAINERS

ABSORBENT MATERIALS

COMPARISON OF AMOUNTS (IN KILOGRAMS) AND TYPES OF HW GENERATED OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS

20092010

2008

293.5

519

76

3,995

266.5

644

63

253

469.5

304.5

65.5

291

736

1,120.5

155

110

233

570

73

750

0

167

77

570

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Storage of hazardous materials

The following storage points within the airport complex have been identified as containing hazardous or po-lluting wastes: the power plant, the FFS building, the waste treatment and desalinating plants, the Volconsa gardening warehouse, the CMD facilities (aircraft fuel supplier), airside and landside service station, works-hops (SM and Clever).

The hazardous and contaminating waste storage areas for which the airport is directly responsible are monitored via the quarterly hazardous material stora-

ge reports. Those areas for which Aena is not directly responsible are tracked through the oversight of the company or facility that is provided by the environmen-tal monitor.

During the environmental monitoring conducted in 2010, some deficiencies were detected, resulting in cer-tain cases in the opening of a non-conformity. These were mainly related to the identification of products and to the installation of methods intended to protect against ground contamination.

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Water

Water is a particularly valuable resource on the island of Lanzarote, which has no natural sources of potable water. The airport has a permit from the Island Water Council to desalinate water and use it in its facilities. The treated water is used to irrigate green areas. In

2010, practically all of the water used originated in the airport’s desalination plant.

The volume of desalinated water supplied by the airport in 2010 was 142,375 m3, which represents a 19.3% (23,105 m3) increase over the previous year.

Control of consumption

YEAR25,000 50,000 75,000 100,000 125,000 150,000 175,000 200,000

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

DESALINATED WATER USAGE (m3) AT THE LANZAROTE AIRPORT 2004-2010

Airport desalinated waterNon-airport desalinated water

142,375

119,270

125,752

106,632

123,209

118,491

143,765

6

176

4,510

48,638

3,772

9,060

8,443

33

YEAR5,000 10,000 15,000 30,000 35,000 40,000 45,000 50,000 55,000 60,000

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

TREATED WATER USAGE (m3) AT THE LANZAROTE AIRPORT (m3) 2004-2010

Airport treated waterNon-airport treated water

55,929

37,477

39,308

33,944

37,578

8,706

9,999

0

78

1,998

13,735

6,440

13,948

5,619

In 2010, 145,498 m3 of water was consumed, 2.47% (3,514 m3) more than the previous year. Since the amount of water used depends on the demand experienced at the airport, the following figure shows the water con-sumption per passenger over the past four years.

The decreasing trend in this consumption paints a much more accurate picture of how efficiently water is being used at the airport.

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40

35

30

25

20

10

5

2007 2008 2009 2010

WATER CONSUMPTION AT THE AIRPORT (L/PAX) FROM 2007 TO 2010.DATA FROM 2011 ARE INCOMPLETE AND NOT SHOWN

37.1

31.7

30.2 29.5

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A breakdown of the consumption attributable to the airport, accounting for 60-80% of the total, is shown below:

YEAR10,0000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 70,000 80,000

Aena warehouses

Control tower

Museum

Env, classroom

Aena offices

Firefighting platform

FF service

Irrigation

Aena houses

Power plant

BREAKDOWN OF WATER CONSUMPTION AT THE AIRPORT IN 2009 AND 2010

20102009

32

325

24

322

1,031

325

4,504

64,842

494

392

1,223

7,296

1,576

563

390

0

7,137

74,161

15,424

366

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There was a 164% increase in the water used in the Aena offices, a total of 641m3 more than in the pre-vious year. This increase follows the even larger increase noted in last year’s report. The power plant reported a slight increase of 7%, 26 m3 more than in 2009. A to-tal of 325 m3 was used in the firefighting platform in 2010, while no consumption was recorded in 2009. This is explained by the operating methods used by the

FFS on said platform. The majority of the water used at the airport is for irrigation, though it should be no-ted that there was a 13% (9,319 m3) decrease in the amount of water used for this purpose. The irrigation installation is designed so that the water used for this purpose is the reclaimed water output by the airport’s own EDAR. Since January 2010, the amount potable water used for irrigation has been minimal.

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Electricity

A total of 12,208,456 kW/h was consumed in 2010, 1% less than the amount used in the previous year

2010 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC TOTAL

COMPANIES 151,034 154,865 169,930 191,376 163,866 151,571 191,572 164,885 219,877 186,011 135,081 136,342 2,016,410

AENA OFFICES 11,780 9,226 10,293 12,294 10,805 11,442 13,319 13,337 12,428 11,526 11,809 16,678 144,937

EDAR 12,871 18,243 16,445 191,376 37,230 31,955 24,250 9,438 22,016 14,661 17,533 16,134 412,152

DESALINATING

PLANT38,170 41,112 30,760 49,831 48,901 54,249 51,232 19,689 58,067 52,605 58,437 54,113 557,166

TOTAL

ELECTRICITY

BILLED

888,696 824,193 970,998 904,559 975,649 994,198 1,123,954 1,242,920 1,190,411 1,186,841 961,663 944,374 12,208,456

(12,345,375 kW/h). The first quarter usually sees the lowest electricity usage, while the highest is recorded in the third quarter.

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1,400,000

1,300,000

1,200,000

1,100,000

1,000,000

900,000

800,000

700,000

600,000

2010

MONTHLY COMPARISON OF ELECTRICITY USAGE (IN KILOWATTS) AND USAGE BY PASSENGERS FOR 2009 AND 2010

2009

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3.00

2.90

2.80

2.70

2.60

2.50

2.40

2.30

2.20

2.10

2.00

1.90

1.80

1.70

kw/h

per

pas

seng

er

ELECTRICITY USAGE PER PASSENGER

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

1st quarter2st quarter3st quarter4st quarter

Since electricity usage is, to a certain extent, influenced by the number of passengers, this factor was determined by calculating the consumption rate per passenger.

Of all the electricity consumed at the airport, 16.52% was by companies. As for Aena’s facilities, the offices accounted for 1.19% of the consumption, the EDAR for 3.38% and the desalinating plant for 4.56%.


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Fuel

Fuel used by vehicles

A total of 35,983.1 liters of fuel was used in 2010, 9% more than in 2009. Of all the fuel used, 12% was ga-

soline (4,160 liters) and the remaining 88% was diesel (31,822.93 liters). The fuel used by heavy vehicles accounted for 54% of the total diesel consumed (19,545.77 liters). Light vehicles re-presented 34% of the consumption (12,277.16 liters).

TOTAL FUEL CONSUMPTION (L) AND PERCENTAGES OF GASOLINE AND DIESEL IN 2010

GasolineDiesel

Heavy vehiclesLight vehicles

19,545.7754%

12,277.1634%

4,160.2612%

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GASOLINE AND DIESEL CONSUMED IN 2010

liters 4,160.26 12,277.16 19,545.77

kilometers 46,038 84,515.7 10,241.5

l/km 0.09 0.15 1.91

Gasoline Light diesel vehicles Heavy diesel vehicles

90.000

80.000

70.000

60.000

50.000

40.000

30.000

20.000

10.000

2.50

2.00

1.50

1.00

0.50

liter

s/ki

lom

eter

s

l/km

Gasoline and diesel consumption in 2010, broken down by vehicle type, as well as kilometers traveled by each group and the liter/kilometer ratio.

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Gasoline veh. 0.18 0.15 0.15 0.14 0.16 0.17 0.09

Light gasoline veh.

0.13 0.07 0.15 0.15 0.12 0.11 0.15

Heavy gasoline veh.

1.09 1.64 1.72 1.44 1.54 1.27 1.91

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

2,00

1,80

1,60

1,40

1,20

1,00

0,80

0,60

0,40

0,20

ters

/kilo

met

ers

Gasoline and diesel consumption (broken down by vehicle type), as well as kilometers traveled by each group and liter/kilometer ratio from 2004 to 2010.

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AÑO5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

FUEL USED IN FFS DRILLS

Fuel used in FFS drills

The amount of kerosene used during FFS drills dropped by 48.5% in comparison to 2009, going from 13,213 liters to 6,800 liters. Only five drills were conducted in 2010.

In comparison with previous years, kerosene consump-tion in 2010 was far below that of other years, as shown in the corresponding graph.

Kerosene consumption during drills in 2010 was as fo-llows:

Fuel used during FFS drills from 2004 to 2010

6,800

13,213

11,409

8,870

4,000

26,750

20,000

Date 24 February 10 March 17 March 13 October 20 October

Cantidad de

queroseno1,000 liters 1,100 liters 1,100 liters 1,100 liters 2,500 liters

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

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Fuel used in power plant

In 2010, 20% less diesel was used than in 2009, a total of 7000.4 liters.

Except for the no. 1 UPS, which consumed 23% more fuel than in 2009, all of the groups saw consumption drops in excess of 20%.

4,000

3,500

3,000

2,500

2,000

1,500

1,000

500

GE1 GE2 GE3 GE4 GE5

FUEL USED IN POWER PLANT DIESEL GENERATORS IN THE LAST TWO YEARS (Liters)

1,749

1,551

3,570

1,580.4

914.41,100 1,122

2,100 1,947.6

730.8

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Flora and fauna

A

Uncultivated dry land

Volcanic ash (picón)

Prairie grasses

Semi-shrubs and landscaped flowers

Shrubs

Crassulas and succulents (aloe, agave, euphorbia milii, aeonium)

Ground covers (lampranthus, gazania, carpobrotus, aptenia)

Autochthonous Canary plants (broom, balos, tajinaste (tower of jewels), lady’s thumb, cardon cactus, euphorbia balsamifera, aeonium)

Bougainvillea

Dragon trees

Casuarina

Palms (Canary palms, date palms, Washingtonia palms, royal palms)

Garden areas

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P-23

P-2

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P-28P-28

P-21

P-22

P-24P-4

P-11 P-12

P-13

P-34P-8

P-5

P-6

P-9P-7

P-27

P-43P-44P-45P-46P-42

P-32P-26

P-33

P-25P-16

P-39P-29P-36

P-40P-37

P-35

P-20

P-17P-18

P-19

P-38

P-47

P-48

P-49

P-50

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Flora and fauna

Lanzarote Airport, thanks to the efforts to improve and preserve its green areas, features a wide variety of ende-mic flora, along with species brought in from other places and which has adapted well to the climate of the island.

The scarcity of rainfall on the island has led to the prac-tice of covering the ground with volcanic ash (picón), which absorbs the moisture from the air and delivers it to the soil. This takes advantage of the nighttime humi-dity in the air, which in dry areas tends to be very high.

The green areas constitute an extension of the natural environment, with the exception that in the landscaped areas, the distribution of the vegetation and its biologi-cal makeup are substantially different from that norma-lly present in nature.

One of the most important parameters used in measu-ring the environmental quality of urban settings is the condition and quality of their green areas. By this mea-sure, we can state that the condition of the landscaped areas at Lanzarote Airport is indicative of its excellent environmental quality.

That is why Lanzarote Airport has gone to such great lengths in recent years to maintain and create new green areas, greatly improving the quality of its environment while attempting to continue with the introduction of diverse species, thus contributing to the biological enri-chment of the airport complex, which currently features over 130 species of flora.

The map below shows the distribution of the main plant groups within the airport:

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As for the fauna, it can sometimes pose a problem to aircraft safety. That is why a wildlife control center has been built, as part of the airport’s strategy to en-sure air safety. Specifically, the Lanzarote Airport built a facility where falcons are kept. The wildlife control service identifies flying birds that cross the airfield and that pose a significant accident risk due to the possibility of a bird strike. At Lanzarote Airport, these birds are mainly pigeons (Columba palumbus), turt-ledoves (Streptopelia decaocto) and seagulls (Larus argentatus). The birds of prey used at the center are

the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), the sparrow hawk (Accipiter nisus), the gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) and Harris’s hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus). These birds of prey are mainly used to scare away any passing birds so as to avoid collisions with aircraft on landing or takeoff. The wildlife control service at the airport is based, therefore, on deterrence as the natural means for controlling bird species, as opposed to other, artificial systems that may also be applied (such as playing repetitive, shrieking noises like explosions or sirens, or the calls of birds of prey).

Flora and fauna

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Environmental classroom

As further proof of the Lanzarote Airport’s commitment to the environment and to society, and especially with the island being declared a Biosphere Reserve, the en-vironmental classroom, opened in January 2010, was intended from the start to be a space for educating is-landers and raising their environmental awareness. The classroom recreates archetypes of the four elements (water, earth, air and fire) to describe environmental as-pects such as noise pollution, climate change and waste management.

The environmental classroom’s raison d’être is to be a place to learn concepts and to assimilate positive envi-ronmental attitudes and behaviors, and also to serve as a meeting place for everyone in society to get involved in environmental issues. The classroom is also meant to

be dynamic, its facilities being available upon request to any group that wishes to hold events there.

The environmental classroom is located in an old mili-tary barracks that was specifically refurbished to house the classroom. It features modern and innovative equi-pment intended to aid in recognizing, interpreting and imagining sustainable scenarios for urban environments in coming years that can coexist with the traditional ar-chitecture found on Lanzarote which, due to the special conditions found on the island, is already in harmony with nature and provides an example of sustainability.

The exhibit area recreates spaces whose goal is to help visitors, in an educational and simple way, to discover, recognize and reflect on our environmental problems, such as noise pollution, waste management, climate change and others.


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The four elements are also used to take the visitor on a guided tour of the island’s protected natural spaces, of the environmental practices used at the airport and of general environmental aspects. The tour concludes with a decalogue of good environmental practices.

The goals of this space are to enhance the environmental knowledge of people living in rural and urban settings, and to try to get these segments of society involved in preserving and constantly improving the environment, thus collaborating in the construction of urban settings that are more sustainable from an economic, social and environmental point of view. To this end, numerous workshops have been organized, like the “4th Environ-mental Day”, coinciding with the World Environment Day, and the “Bioconstruction

Days”, in participation with institutions representing va-rious Spanish provinces. A lecture series was also laun-ched that focuses on environmental awareness in the area of environmental and waste management. These lectures are aimed at specific groups that engage in ac-tivities within the airport complex.

As a result, it is hoped that the island’s inhabitants can learn and teach others that the environment in which we live must be cared for, especially Lanzarote, decla-red a “Biosphere Reserve” by UNESCO. The goal is to convey that we must be critical of our way of living and must, by respecting the environment, aim to make our lifestyle as sustainable as possible.


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