SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 24. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The College of Dentists of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has denounced that the Government Area of Environmental Sustainability and Public Services of the capital City Council, whose councilor is Carlos Tarife, is discriminating against the private network of dentists in the application of the Waste Ordinance.
Published in the Official Gazette of the Province on December 26, this ordinance determines that in the management of non-specific sanitary waste (group II) it is the producers who must deliver it to an authorized management entity and that, in no case , will be deposited in containers or alternative deposit systems established by the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council on public roads.
However, the College of Dentists indicates that it has verified that at least five health centers in the capital have containers placed on the street for this type of waste and for exclusive use, authorized by the City Council, which has refused to authorize private management companies to place, at certain points, this type of container so that dentists can deposit this waste. For this reason, the collegiate entity considers that the local Corporation maintains an arbitrary attitude.
In the words of the president of the College of Dentists of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Concepción León Martínez, “dental offices already assume the selective collection of type III sanitary waste, through authorized companies, and now they have added a new obligation with waste that could be assimilated to domestic, with the consequent increase in costs that this generates”.
Dr. León Martínez adds that they do not understand the refusal of the City Council, nor the lack of viable solutions for a group that is complying with all its legal obligations.
