The mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, presented yesterday the benefits linked to the new municipal cleaning service, which, after signing a new contract with Urbaser on the 24th, will allow us to have a cleaner municipality. Among the novelties, the entire effective fleet will be renewed thanks to the incorporation of a total of 140 state-of-the-art vehicles and 5,000 new containers and bins will be made available to the public, with the aim of achieving a recycling level of 65%. in the year 2035.
During the event, held in the Plaza del Cristo, where several of the new vehicles and machinery that are part of the new service were exhibited, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez highlighted that, “as of this Saturday, the cleaning and collection service of waste from La Laguna will experience a real transformation”. “We want it to be more modern and efficient, where environmental measures are a fundamental part and where both the most populated nuclei of La Cuesta and Taco are served, as well as the rest of the neighborhoods and towns of the municipality,” he said in this regard.
“We listen to our neighbors and neighbors, we know their concerns,” he added. Thus, in accordance with these citizen demands, the mayor explained that the new contract includes the creation of rapid action teams to respond as quickly as possible to requests or incidents that occur at any point.
The renewal of the fleet will also mean obtaining a series of benefits such as saving water and fuel, reducing noise, improving work efficiency and, ultimately, respect for the environment.
For his part, the Urbaser delegate in La Laguna, Federico González, commented that “with this new contract we will take a leap in quality so that the streets of La Laguna have a cleaner and more well-cared image”. “A project that also contemplates the collaboration of citizens to make our municipality more sustainable,” he added.
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Likewise, thanks to the new La Laguna + Limpia service, the municipality will become one of the first in the Canary Islands to implement the collection of organic waste, the City Council highlighted. This fraction, of great weight, may be subjected to processes that convert it into valuable matter, for agricultural use as soil fertilizer.
The implementation, which is expected to begin in the coming months, will be accompanied by the awareness and dissemination campaigns necessary to make the process as efficient as possible, explained the company’s managers.
