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The Mayor presides over the presentation of the new street cleaning service, characterized by the use of renewable energy and a cleaner vehicle fleet.
The modernization of the service, which incorporates the latest technology allows the use of media that require less water consumption, reduce noise emissions and lessen the carbon footprint of more than 50%.
About 750 people work in cleaning and waste management of Murcia.
Service was extended to new areas of growth of neighborhoods and districts and incorporated new features such as emergency care or a unique device for the removal of graffiti, posters and stickers.
"We showed it is possible to combine excellence in the quality of public services with respect for the environment," says House.
"Murcia is already in the city example of efficient and sustainable management of urban waste," he assured the mayor, Miguel Angel House, in the presentation of the new service Urban Cleaning and Waste Management, awarded by the City Cespa.
"A town like ours, strongly committed to sustainable development, could not get this if left outside environmental criteria housekeeping and waste treatment," said the Mayor.
For this reason, the new contract has reserved an essential role in the eco-sustainability and enhancement of waste.
The use of a fleet that consumes less water, cause less noise and less pollution are elements that characterize the fleet that carries out the cleaning and waste collection in the neighborhoods and districts of Murcia.
House has said that "we had and we are willing to do so.
We knew and we know how.
And today we also have the means to carry it out.
So there is no reason to not reference Murcia city committed to preserving the environment, making it compatible with a quality public service in the management of waste. "
This is a course of action consistent with a city like Murcia, is committed to the sustainable future and, therefore, determined to provide a good quality of life for its inhabitants.
In this sense, can see the improvement Murcia produced in the mechanization of the means employed, incorporating the latest technology, also used with better organization and can meet the new expansion areas (Juan de Borbón, Juan Carlos I, Ronda Sur ...), both in town and hamlets, with increased media and a special service in the historic center.
The street cleaning also be provided in more areas of the municipality, also extends and improves other services, such as graffiti removal, posters and stickers in municipal buildings, whose task is added in an exclusive team, or the emergency services, who will attend 24 hours of any incident.
Regarding the collection, highlights the installation of 1,800 recycling containers and underground extension of 500 points more.
The Mayor was pleased to have managed to reconcile the possibility of "enjoy a clean neighborhoods and districts, making it an effective treatment for severe and waste, and all that, respecting and even encouraging sustainability and attention to the environment environment ".
"We are prepared to be an international Murcia between cities to reconcile excellence in the quality of public services and the utmost care of the environment," said House, who also recalled that since 2007 the municipality has its "route green "to ensure a sustainable future, which is essential to achieve an effective reduction of greenhouse gases produced by urban activity.
Murcia, more sustainable
In the field of energy, the new urban cleaning and waste management policy is part of the promotion of clean and renewable energies, arising from compliance with the Kyoto Protocol.
In this sense, the reduction of greenhouse gases that cause the new contract is very significant, to 6,485,237 tonnes of CO2 equivalent avoided, which has a direct impact on improving air quality.
The carbon footprint is also generated highly favorable, rising from about 36,000 current annual teq CO2 to CO2 teq 15,700 per year in the development of the service, a reduction of 56%.
A cluster innovation environment
On the other hand, one of the most important projects to be developed in Murcia in the coming years is the creation of a reference cluster Environment and Renewable Energy, in collaboration with lawn, created with the aim to promote a new area economic activity that will transform the current Waste Treatment Centre in an area of ​​innovation and opportunity.
The goal is to turn Cañada Hermosa and the entire area dedicated to the landfill in an intelligent territory, a new pole of economic growth, social and employment and at the same time, a world leader in research, development and innovation in environment and renewable energy.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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