You might recall, that Salobreña Town Hall installed a refuse-collection system for some parts of town that has drawn a good deal of resistance.
Basically, rubbish would be collected from outside your home but only certain items depending on the day of the week; i.e., plastic on a Tuesday, let’s say.
In the Old Town streets are too narrow to place an ‘island’ for recycling bins, which is why this system was started up there last Monday, using this narrow electric buggy as seen above.
The relevant department within the Town Hall admits that there have been ‘certain problems, ‘ resulting in some rubbish bags left out for collection not being picked being up.
Consequently, Councillor Luis Cano has said that the timetable will have to be adjusted so that everybody knows what time the refuse-collection buggy will pass by.
The Councillor met with representatives of the Asociación de Vecinos del Casco Antiguo, where they expressed their “discontent” over the new system and the private company that holds the service contract.
During the meeting the Councillor asked for residents to respect the daily collection system but in the case of necessity, if they put rubbish out on the wrong days, it would still get collected.
Another area within the new system in the municipal dependency of La Caleta, where it was agreed to make the same concessions. The system starts there Monday the 10th. Different coloured, free, plastic bags will be handed out to cover the next two months.
As far as the seafront promenade goes, where there is a large number of businesses in the hostelry trade, during the summer there will be two collections each day for organic refuse; once at 17.00h and the other at midnight.
All this, of course, is connected with a previous article of ours concerning a new tax levied on unsorted rubbish taken to rubbish-treatment plants by each municipality. The extra tax is charged on how many tonnes are brought in. In the case of Salobreña, for example, the Town Hall has to pay a further 150,000 euros annually on top of the 180,000 that they already pay, given a total of 330,000 euros to come from the municipal coffers.
(News: Salobreña, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)