The Tías City Council makes a request to the residents of the municipality to "correctly use" the garbage containers and "not deposit rubble" from construction or demolition, which causes damage to trucks and the containers themselves.
The council has detected an "increase in waste" of all kinds deposited "incorrectly" in the containers or in their environment, so it asks for "responsibility and civic commitment", and recalls that sanctions of "200 euros or more" are stipulated for infringement.
The Councilor for Solid Waste Management and Street Cleaning, Carmen Gloria Rodríguez, points out that “the collection of rubble bags by the cleaning services, both inside the containers and in the vicinity of these, is detrimental to everyone, since it costs money to all the residents of Tías”.
She adds that “the deposit of rubble in urban containers often generates breakdowns in the boom of the collection trucks, which are not prepared to lift so much weight. In addition, these bags "cannot be loaded into normal garbage trucks and must be removed with special vehicles."
Gloria Rodríguez recalls that the deposit of rubble is "regulated in the 'Municipal Ordinance for the Management of Rubble and Land', published in the 'Official Gazette of the Province in 2007' and which prohibits its deposit in urban solid waste containers"
The rubble from construction or demolition must be deposited at the clean point of the municipality, located on the Tías to Puerto del Carmen road, and open from Monday to Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Sundays and holidays, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.. Waste of domestic origin is accepted, not business or industrial.