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The Director General of Planning, Evaluation and Environmental Control, Francisco José Espejo, has delivered to the City of Jumilla, represented by the Mayor of Jumilla Francisco Abellán of a truck for the collection of household appliances.
This is an industrial-type vehicle, Renault Maxity 130.35, with a payload of 3,500 kg., Bodywork with metal box Dropside up to four meters and aluminum tail lift of 500 kilos of cargo, which has been funded 80 percent by the Cohesion Fund of the European Union and 20 percent funded by the Ministry itself.
On this vehicle, Francisco Abellán has stated that "it will allow the City to comply with an important role in waste collection has dimensions suitable for our town and will be reflected in home appliances."
Abellán added that this service will expand to more days and also "will give you another service, from January to selectively collect wastes that are in the environments, ramblas, top of Jumilla, Cerro Castillo, Charco del Zorro, the road side of the cemetery, among others. "
The mayor added that the intention is to "hire the unemployed to a number of people, mainly women with family responsibilities and form the template of contingent workers, assigned to the Department of Environment for the collection and cleaning of all the waste that harm the image our municipality. "
The Director General congratulated the City Council for their support and initiative to create jobs and thanked the mayor's treatment.
He noted that the said vehicle "has the features needed for municipal cleaning services can make to address the collection of all those bulky belongings do not fit into conventional containers, and remove to waste management facilities which will be recycled or properly disposed. "
Mirror points out that with this type of initiative "is intended to advance the necessary adaptation of traditional systems of waste collection to the new regulations."
Also notes that aid from the European Cohesion Fund for 2007-2013 will be a priority for the adequacy of landfills and improve treatment and transport systems.
The need to develop policies on waste management incentives such as priority, source reduction and reuse, recycling and finally the recovery of waste compared to other management techniques, involves the adaptation of systems waste collection.
The increased awareness of society with separation of waste at source, involves an adaptation of the systems through which people place their waste to be managed more then adequate.
Among these systems is the collection of bulky household goods, by the municipal cleaning services that do not fit into conventional containers for transfer to waste management centers, where they are given proper treatment for recycling or , where applicable, disposal.
The adaptation of traditional systems of municipal waste collection to the new regulations in this area requires the purchase of mobile and fixed infrastructure that contribute to achieving the targets set by them.
Moreover, the EU is well aware of the importance the environment has on its own economic and social cohesion, so that "Environment and sustainable development" constitutes one of the three basic axes around which have set the Cohesion Fund support for the operating period 2007-2013.
In that program has described the priority actions, aimed, inter alia, the adequacy of landfills and improve the treatment and transport systems
The Directorate General of Planning, Evaluation and Environmental Control is a normal organ receiving aid from the European Union in the field of waste management.
Since this competition is decentralized local government are the municipalities of the region the ultimate beneficiaries of these aid in the form of capital investment since the Regional Directors are promoted for later delivery to the municipalities.
In this framework, Jumilla City Council requested the purchase of a small truck for the collection of household appliances, that after the proceedings relating to their employment and received by the staff of the Autonomous Community, is provided for your use, registered and insured.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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