The capital of Asturias, Oviedo, is considered the cleanest city in Spain according to the score given by its residents as to the cleanliness of its streets. While each Oviedo resident pays an average of 61 euros per year to pay the concessionaire of this service, in the municipality of Ibiza the figure is almost tripled with 180 euros per year, despite being “possibly the dirtiest city in the country”, as stated by the spokesman of Ciudadanos, José Luis Rodríguez Poblador.
The concessionaire of the cleaning service of Vila, Valoriza, became the main protagonist of the plenary session held yesterday, after Ciudadanos presented a motion of control by the neighborhood complaints about the dirtiness of the municipality. The Councilor for the Environment, Jordi Salewski, flatly denied that Vila was the dirtiest Spanish city, but admitted that the next cleaning concession should be improved considerably.
Tourist overcrowding causes pressure on cleaning services
“The specifications of the current cleaning service were drawn up by the PP,” said Salewski, who recalled that the progressive government team decided to bring it forward so as not to delay the awarding by “two or three years”, especially given the deficiencies already present in the equipment of the former concessionaire. However, Valoriza is complying with all the indicators that govern the work of its teams, according to Salewski, who blamed the dirtiness of the streets on the strong human pressure suffered by Vila with tourist overcrowding and the uncivic attitudes of those who violate the ordinances.
“Oviedo has 1.150 inhabitants per square kilometer, while in Vila there are 4,546”, replied the mayor to the spokesman of Ciudadanos
“Oviedo does not have the tourist pressure of Vila”, he stressed, while insisting that the comparison of prices warned by Ciudadanos lacked objective validity without computing the concurrence of people in the equation. “Oviedo has 1,150 inhabitants per square kilometer, while in Vila there are 4,546”, pointed out to Rodríguez Poblador the mayor.
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