Councillor for Camposol visits garden waste sites on Camposol urbanisation

Ever growing garden waste problem on Camposol urbanisation to be addressed using an outside contractor

The Camposol Business Association met with the Mazarrón Councillor for Camposol, Carmen Navarro on Friday April 19 along with a waste contractor. Councillor Navarro acknowledged that of communications received from Camposol, emails regarding the subject of garden waste were more numerous than any other issue.

From a municipality wide view point the garden waste problem has been an issue for many years for various reasons; transportation contract expiry, legal problems with the intended municipal site for disposal and also the recent glitch, where historical difficulties at the main municipal vegetation waste disposal site at Pedreras Viejas (The old quarry), which halted garden waste removal as there was no-where to deposit it after collection. It was hoped that these problems would have been overcome but unfortunately various regional and EU regulations are proving difficult to comply with using the council’s current facilities.

To resolve this problem Mazarrón Council are to appoint a contractor who will collect the waste accumulated thus far for treatment in the contractors own plant in Totana. To this end Business Association committee members took the Councillor for Camposol and contractor on a tour of all 4 Sectors of the urbanisation indentifying the locations of the accumulated waste on each sector. These locations have been confirmed by the gardening groups for each sector.

The next step is for the contractor to submit a costing for the work and after approval by the council’s governing board the contractor can start to remove the offending waste. Although because of the sheer volume of waste this will take some time.

Mazarrón Council ask that after each site is cleared no more waste is dumped in that location (or any other unofficial site) as a single dedicated garden waste site for the whole urbanisation is being planned.

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