Motareke wrote:Well folks,
Please do realize that if we want to keep it as good value, we will have to co operate with the system!
If we, ( as a lot of us do!!!!
) keep dropping everything in and around the bins that isn't supposed to be there like green stuff etc..
they can't keep it at these prices!
They will go up then!!
So please lets appreciate what the Spanish are doing for us all and respect their laws and wishes; LETS STOP BAD BEHAVIOR AND CO OPERATE!!
Well said. However, I think you're fighting a losing battle.
Some of you may know the bins on the corner of C/Girona and C/Pamplona. The week before last, two of us went down with brushes and cleaned the entire bit. We called the municipal town hall and they came and collected a broken settee, an old mattress and we put the garden waste in the cardboard boxes that had been dumped there and took them to the recycling bit.
The chap on the corner allowed us to use his tap and we used my pressure washer to clean up the whole corner and swept all the bits up and put them in the bin.
One bin is upside down and has a big hole in it where someone has emptied hot ashes in it. The other green bin is completely split down the front and we secured it with some blue string. The grey bin does have a lid but is cracked inside on three sides. The chap collecting the rubbish said he'd speak to the town hall about replacing them.
For two days the area actually looked clean and tidy.
Going past on Sunday, about half a dozen bags of waste were thrown on the floor, there was yet another mattress (how do people go through them so quickly?), cardboard boxes for a TV and a fridge that hadn't even been flattened and loads of palm fronds dumped by the side of the bin.
You feel, sometimes, like it just isn't worth it.