The new garbage contract begins with which «Dénia will be clean 24 hours a day»
This morning what will be Dénia's new cleaning fleet was presented to the media, taking the opportunity to also tell about the news of the service that starts today, again by Urbaser. And so it will be for the next decade, which is the term of the contract that starts on July 1.
A contract of this nature, with a value of almost 70 million euros, usually arouses many expectations, especially when the issue of cleaning tends to generate controversy in cities in the face of tourist seasons. However, as the mayor, Vicent Grimalt, pointed out during the press conference, changing things does not depend only on those who clean, but also on those who dirty.
But what will change with this new contract? "The cleaning service is going to increase a lot," said the councilor for the area, Maite Pérez Conejero, stressing that "Dénia is going to be clean 24 hours a day."
The big news
The next question jumps almost unintentionally: how will they do it? The list of novelties, certainly, is extensive. The containers will be modified, there will be new waste to work with, also greater waste collection, adapting the schedule to the particularities of the catering establishments in some areas, a new brushcutter, an information office, environmental educators...
And not only that, but the number of workers has been increased to a hundred (before they were about 70), increasing to 120 in high season. Also striking is the new fleet of vehicles made up almost entirely of vehicles powered by electricity or gas.
They also announce that in about 4 months the door-to-door garbage collection service will start in Les Roques, Baix la Mar, La Xara and Jesús Pobre, one of the most striking and requested novelties.
Results that require the help of neighbors
However, it will be of little use if there is no citizen collaboration, as Urbaser insisted. "While a sweeper picks up bags, he is not sweeping," he indicated in reference to the garbage that is taken out at the wrong time and piled up outside the containers. In this line, from the City Council they pointed out that there was no longer an excuse because everyone knows when they have to take the bags out.
