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| The junction of Calle Ontario and Calle Baikal Orihuela Costa. |
The Orihuela Town Council continues
with its policy of using the streets of Orihuela Costa as Landfill
and Compost Heap sites.
The pile of rubbish in the photograph
at the junction of Calle Ontario and Calle Baikal was first deposited
at least three weeks and has continued to grow on a daily basis. This
is not a unique problem to this location but one that is repeated
throughout Orihuela Costa. I mention this mountain of garbage because
it is directly in front of my house. One hundred metres further along
C/ Ontario is another heap of an equal size.
This situation is allowed to develop
and continue as a direct result of the incompetence of, and neglect
by, the Town Council. The problem of the collection of dumped rubbish
in the streets has been like a perennial festering wound which has
failed to be cured by current and past government teams.
You can see in the photograph a
container for the depositing of household rubbish, that is emptied
every night, to the left of the waste. To the right a skip is visible
that is meant for garden rubbish with the contents being collected
twice a week. So nine times a week a Council refuse lorry stops and
empties these bins, and the ones further along both streets. That’s
at least twenty-nine times in the period the rubbish has been laying
in the road. But, the landfill-compost monstrosities in the streets
are ignored. An indication of the contempt the Council has for the householders of Orihuela Costa and the environment we live in.
The Mayor, Monserrate
Guillén, – who was quick to criticise the ruling
Council for the same problem when he was in opposition – and the
Councillor for Orihuela Costa, Martina Scheurer, who are both members
of the Green Party (Los Verdes) – the party that's supposed to care
about the environment – should be ashamed of their failure to
rectify the current appalling situation.
My Previous articles:
http://elliotsampford.blogspot.com.es/2010/10/dear-monica-streetfill-sites-update-2.html
http://elliotsampford.blogspot.com.es/2010/05/as-direct-result-of-failure-of-orihuela.html
Recent Newspaper articles:
http://www.theleader.info/494/article/41297/spain/costa-blanca/playing-the-green-waste-game/
http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/costa-blanca-south/item/117059-green-rubbish-hits-crisis-point-in-orihuela-costa
© Elliot Sampford 2013
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