The company Acciona has introduced ten staff, each equipped with an electric motorcycle, who will tour the area in an effort to stop the uncontrolled dumping of waste in Torrevieja
The team will document the spills, household waste, mattresses, furniture, white goods and pruning, and will send the images and location, with a report to the Local Police, so that they can sanction the perpetrators who they are able to identify.
The service is a requirement that was included in the specifications of the new contract, for which Torrevieja pays 25 million euros per year, and is launched one year after its start.
The councillor of Urban Cleaning, María José Ruiz , has said that these Acciona employees will all be easily recognisable in a uniform that identifies them as environmental controllers. They work through an App on a mobile device, which they will use to take the images and record the necessary data to initiate sanctions by the local authorities. In addition, they will also monitor collection service itself, which will allow the company to improve or correct the service.
The team of environmental controllers is made up of 10 people who work continuously from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. , in different shifts. They may also work night shifts to control incidents that occur during that day.
Torrevieja, like other municipalities, has a serious problem of uncontrolled dumping, fundamentally of two types. There is the waste of all kinds that ends up surrounding the waste container, including mattresses that appear by the thousands and also garden and plant pruning, as well as and the accumulations in remote areas, especially builder waste.
María José Ruiz , who is the third councillor to assume the management of the waste service in the last 12 months, has said that with this new work team it is intended to reinforce control over the service itself and detect non-compliance on the part of companies and residents on a daily basis, and that are included in the Municipal Ordinance of Urban Cleaning, with fines that range from 50-750 euros.
The new service will be completed with new awareness campaigns that are being developed for launch so as, together, to have a “cleaner Torrevieja”.
