The Waste Councilor of the Island Council of Lanzarote, Hugo Delgado, has responded indignantly to the statement issued this Monday by the Teguise City Council, in which they blamed the Island Council for the delay in the opening of the Costa Teguise Recycling Center. Delgado stated this Tuesday on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero that this gesture "is a treacherous stab in the back to the Island Council", because "they know perfectly well that the Recycling Center is not open because of them.”
The facility was scheduled to open in the summer of 2019, but the lack of access from the road has been delaying its opening. “What the City Council had to do was the roads to access the Recycling Center, but in their haste they forgot,” says Delgado, who adds that the City Council later presented a project that was “a mess.”
The Waste Councilor of the Island Council explains that he had to get “annoying” and “insist to the Teguise City Council” to send him documents. “I have been silent, but I am not going to be silent anymore, because I don't know what they are playing at,” he warns.
In the statement, the mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort, stated that the new infrastructures “will mean a qualitative leap in waste management”, but questioned that its delay “is affecting the accumulation of belongings in the network of municipal points”. Delgado, upon reading Betancort's statement, tried to contact Eugenio Robayna, Councilor for Works of the City Council, without obtaining any response: “He did not answer the phone,” he questions.
From the Teguise City Council they point out that 350,000 euros were invested, from the Island Cooperation Plan and a municipal project with the aim of improving waste management. However, Delgado assures that this figure is higher since they have had to “reinvest in wiring because it had been stolen”. Regarding the opening, he affirms that “it is expected for the beginning of November”.
