Saturday, November 07, 2009

The rubbish dump

image The CHS (Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura), the organisation responsible for the river, say that all their efforts to keep the river clean are being thwarted by the behaviour of the locals who treat it like a garbage dump.

The CHS annually removes 10,000 cubic metres of rubbish from the azarbes, (the channels that take water to the huerta).

A percentage of the rubbish has come from the rain water drains or is natural waste. However, the umpteen plastic bottles that they retrieve which have been used by agriculturalists and then tossed into the river when they are empty aren’t.

As the CHS says, this does nothing for the quality of the water and presents a very poor picture of the society that we live in.

In the past I remember reading about the other rubbish that gets dumped in the river including old mopeds which had had their engines removed. I used to think the people of Liverpool were the most guilty of dumping rubbish outside of the proper places, it seems that Spaniards are just as bad.

Now to a question: we have an old kettle which we know should not go in the green bin but where do we take it? I know there is a place to take items like this on the industrial estate but I don't know where it is and having driven round several times I can't find a sign for it.

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