Benidorm alleges the ecoparks management regulation approved by the Waste Consortium

Benidorm City Council has presented allegations about the Regulations governing the use and operation of the eco-parks managed by the Consorcio del Plan Zonal de Residuos 6, to which the city belongs. This has been announced today by the Councilor for Street Cleaning, Luis Navarro, who reported that "there are 15 allegations from a technical report by the Engineering department, which considers that various aspects of the regulation are inadequate or contrary to the interests of this Town Hall and, by extension, of the city of Benidorm”.

Hence, the proposal approved today by the Local Government Board (JGL) intends to "defend municipal interests" and "improve the regulations to achieve the final objective, which is that citizens and companies use eco parks responsibly to increase collection selective and separate waste and avoid uncontrolled dumping, which would have to be cleaned by the City Council”.

Navarro explained that "what we ask in our allegations, for example, is that the use of the eco-parks be open to all citizens, regardless of where they are registered, since as the regulation is written, only residents could deposit their waste in the facilities, which leaves out tourists and the floating and temporary population, which in the case of Benidorm number hundreds of thousands of people”.

Benidorm also advocates for the maximum amounts of waste that can be deposited per user per day and month to be made more flexible "so that the displacement always pays off"; and that "the municipalities are not subject to these limitations, since in the case of Benidorm the City Council offers the citizen a service to collect belongings that are later deposited in the eco-park".

Likewise, he proposes that access to the eco-park is free and that a public price for the waste deposit not be established, since this would discourage the use of the facilities and could generate uncontrolled dumping.

In addition, he proposes that concepts and definitions be clarified and that cleaning the environment of the facilities is a responsibility that falls to both the Town Halls and the Consortium itself.

In short, the councillor deepened, "We must make it as easy as possible for people and companies to use eco-parks, which have a more rational and efficient use, to guarantee the correct treatment of waste and minimize its environmental impact. And that is precisely what we intend with our allegations, which we hope will be taken into account, and in this way, the Regulations will be corrected and improved”, Navarro pointed out.

The Regulation was approved on May 9 by the General Meeting of the Consortium, chaired by the former mayor of Orxeta, the socialist José Vicente Ferriz. The representative of Benidorm, the mayor José Ramón González de Zárate, abstained from the vote, anticipating that the City Council would study the presentation of allegations to improve the text.