In a few days will be easier to recycle and reduce waste generation in the town since this morning the mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, attended the delivery of new adapted vehicle, issued by the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Planning Territory, which will act as the mobile eco-park.
In order to be able to use clean vehicles as many citizens as possible, the Department of Environment, has scheduled a few locations and times for the location of mobile EcoPark.
Soon be able to deposit waste on Tuesday, along City Park from 8.00 to 13.00 hours and 15.00 to 18.00 hours the same day, in Avenida Juan Carlos I, (along mercadona).
On Fridays and Sundays, the mobile eco-park will visit the weekly markets in Puerto Lumbreras and Station-The hamlet Esparragal in time from 8.00 to 13.00 pm and on Friday afternoon from 15.00 to 18.00 Buenavista in the Park, in front C / Gang Port.
"With the mobile eco-park residents have an adequate infrastructure that will enable them to carry out the collection of hazardous household waste or pollutants that have no place in conventional containers.
Importantly for this vehicle can carry out its main function must have the cooperation of all lumbrerenses for each residue is in place for and to achieve a clean and sustainable municipality. "
In the same way Sanchez added, "We believe that from the Municipal Government Team, in collaboration with the Regional Government, we are taking steps to make available to citizens, not only adequate infrastructure, but the actions necessary for it not have to travel to the facilities of the EcoPark, located in the Industrial Park and will soon be operational, achieving greater convenience to citizens. "
The mobile is a vehicle ecopark Renault Midlum 220.10B with a special body with containers to collect oil, batteries, fluorescent tubes, electrical cables, solvents and paint, drugs, plastics, small appliances, clothing, shoes, then be deposited in the fixed ecopark will soon open in the municipality.
The acquisition of the mobile collection points as part of public infrastructure for the development of regional planning for waste, scheduled for 2007-2013.
ECOPARQUE OPERATION
The waste is carried by means ecoparks own citizens.
When an object is made up of more than one material, it must be dismantled as far as possible in order to incorporate each fraction of the waste in appropriate container.
(For example, a wooden cabinet with metal parts to be dismantled wooden shed wooden container and metal to metal container. Where to deposit cardboard, it must be folded to occupy minimum space) .
These wastes are carried sorting plants, where they are separated, recovered and recycled materials to use back then.
Only non-recyclable fractions are taken to a landfill.
It is important to use the municipal parks because it reduces the volume of waste going to landfill.
Because it saves energy and raw materials, reusing or recycling the waste and avoids the uncontrolled dumping of waste from the large size of our environment.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras