No 905 Monday 7th - Sunday 13th February 2022
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he Department of Street Cleaning and Urban Solid Waste has drawn up the Local Waste Management Plan, which, as well as outlining the current deficiencies, provides a roadmap to the improvement and modernisation of the service.
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The result will see an investment of 20 million euros over the next six years. According to the councillor responsible, Dámaso Aparicio, as well as improving the efficiency of street collections, more effort needs to be put into the recycling aspect, as well regular awareness campaigns to put an end to many fallacious beliefs. "Improving collection at source also has environmental and economic advantages, and it is also mandatory by law," he said.
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"If it is not recycled, we all pay more and the City Council does not receive the income associated with it’s recycled waste," he explains. In addition to improving efficiency, there are plans for each urban area, with more than 10,000 inhabitants, to have it’s own individual waste plan, a requirement of Spanish law. The law also establishes that “municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants must have door-to-door collections, together with a user identification system that allows economic and fiscal policies to be applied”, although at the moment few municipalities comply. The Orihuela project will introduce a pilot test of a door-todoor collection service in homes, as well as a payment system so that residents will pay based on the waste they generate.
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