The San Bartolomé City Council has carried out a cleaning of up to 9 illegal dumping points in two ravines of Montaña Blanca, in an initiative that arose at the request of the children of the municipality. As explained by the City Council, the mayor, Alexis Tejera, visited the CEIP María Auxiliadora of Montaña Blanca and the students conveyed this request to him.
In this regard, they explain that the boys and girls of this center had taken a walk through the area and found rubble and belongings in different points of two ravines.
The City Council first proceeded to identify the points one by one and then to clean the areas affected by said dumping, locating a total of nine points of uncontrolled dumping in the surroundings of the ravine located on El Especiero street and in the ravine located on Las Rosas street. "There is a curious coincidence that it is basically rubble from home construction on the one hand and furniture and belongings in other cases," they point out from the City Council.
After the removal of the belongings, which were transferred to the Zonzamas Environmental Complex, the City Council anticipates that "the removal of construction debris also found in some points will proceed as soon as possible."
"Great work of environmental awareness in the classrooms"
The mayor wanted to publicly thank "the initiative of the students of the CEIP María Auxiliadora, which implies the great work of environmental awareness that has been carried out in the classrooms of the municipality and also from the families." In addition, he has made "a call to the entire population to get involved and collaborate, since cleaning and maintenance is everyone's business."
In a statement, the City Council recalls that it carries out "continuous cleaning work from the areas of Public Services and the Environment, and only with the collaboration of everyone will we be able to be an exemplary municipality in terms of cleaning." "The daily effort to maintain street cleaning, parks, squares, gardens and public spaces, as well as the improvement and beautification of garden areas, walls, streets, painting, maintenance, is enormous, so we ask for neighborhood collaboration so that our environment is in optimal condition," the mayor insists.
In addition, he recalled that the City Council offers a service to avoid these practices. “We provide the collection service for belongings from the San Bartolomé City Council by prior telephone call, so we do not understand these repeated actions against the environment,” added Tejera.
In this sense, he recalls that the clean point located in Güime is open from Monday to Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and that the San Bartolomé City Council provides the collection service for belongings, calling 928 819 473 in advance, and that both services "are totally free." Likewise, the Councilor for the Environment requests "all neighborhood collaboration, not only to use these services, but also to send us photos or call us to tell us if they find rubble or see how they deposit it in places that are not enabled for this purpose." For this, he recalls that they can call the City Council or communicate it through the green line app or website "so that it can be removed as soon as possible."
