SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo of Tenerife has decided to freeze the waste rate for the 31 municipalities of the island and establish a moratorium until April 10, 2025 in which the amount of the current rate of the Fiscal Ordinance regulating the Plan rates will be maintained. Spatial Territorial Waste Management System (PTEOR).
The decision was adopted unanimously during the Plenary Session held this Friday at the Island Palace.
The Minister of Natural Environment, Sustainability and Security and Emergencies, Blanca Pérez, explains in a note that the new state law requires municipalities to update the rates from January 1, 2024, although the Cabildo has decided not to apply the increase planned “so that the municipalities of Tenerife can carry out the necessary actions, such as the preparation of municipal ordinances with updated rates and the processing of new municipal waste collection contracts, to adapt to the new waste management model of the island of Tenerife and comply with the law”.
Pérez points out that the decision is made within the framework of collaboration that the Cabildo provides to the 31 municipalities of the island.
“We have decided to maintain this situation until April 2025 and during this period we will hold various meetings with the city councils to inform them about the new reality that they have to face by law,” he comments.
Likewise, the Minister of Natural Environment, Sustainability, Security and Emergencies explains that meetings will be held in the Canarian Federation of Islands (Fecai) where all the councils are represented, and in the Canary Islands Federation of Municipalities (Fecam) “to advance, together with the Government of the Canary Islands, towards the circular economy and the sustainability of our island and the entire archipelago.”
