The Island Council of Formentera has opened the public consultation period prior to the drafting of the regulation that will govern the island's service for the collection, reception, classification, recovery, and management of construction and demolition waste (CDW) on the island. The initiative, approved by the Governing Board on October 16, aims to gather opinions and contributions from the public and the sectors involved before drafting the regulations.

The Balearic Islands coastal cleaning service removed more than 5.3 tons of waste from the waters and coasts of the Archipelago during the month of September. The daily average collection was 178 kilos, according to data from the Ministry of the Sea and the Water Cycle.

The Council of Mallorca does not intend to back down and will maintain the new waste fee and the extraordinary payment of 41.4 million euros to Tirme despite the new questions raised by the opposition. The plenary session of the Council of Mallorca rejected this Thursday, with the votes of the PP and Vox, the motion with which the PSIB-PSOE demanded the withdrawal of the two files until the doubts raised by the control bodies regarding the concessionaire's accounts were clarified.

Tirme rejects that it obtains "stratospheric profits" for the management of waste in Mallorca and maintains that the financial contributions from the Council serve to lower the cost of the service for the municipalities. The concessionaire responded this Wednesday to the report from the General Intervention of the island institution that questions the tariff system and warns of imbalances in the concession. The company maintains that the document's assessments do not reflect its economic reality and claims that it learned of its content through the media.

The PSIB-PSOE will force Llorenç Galmés's government to pronounce itself again on the Tirme concession. The socialists will defend a motion in the next plenary session of the Consell de Mallorca to suspend the processing of the 2026 waste tariff and halt the payment of the 41.4 million euros approved this summer until the real costs of the service have been reviewed. The initiative also incorporates a new front: it demands a review of the 50 million committed by the Government of the Balearic Islands for the transport and treatment of Ibiza's waste in Mallorca, after the PSIB denounced that 41 million have already been transferred without any economic report to justify the amount.

The PSIB-PSOE does not intend to overlook the report from the General Intervention of the Council of Mallorca, which makes a very unfavorable assessment of the Tirme concession and concludes that it has a serious impact on the interests of the Administration. The socialist spokesperson at the island institution, Catalina Cladera, demanded this Tuesday "the immediate halt" of the tariff modification file, the suspension of the application of the 2026 tariff, and the review of the 41 million euro credit modification approved by the Council plenary session in the month of July.

A worker died this Tuesday at the Tirme facilities, as reported by the CCOO union, which has requested that the circumstances of the incident be investigated, after high levels of carbon monoxide were detected. This is an employee from the night shift of the Ilunion company who, according to the information provided by the union organization, was found lifeless at 9:00 PM.

The Government has already taken the first step in the proceedings arising from the complaint by the Nature Protection Service (Seprona) of the Civil Guard for the dumping of more than three tons of chipped asphalt remains on various rural paths and public spaces in Petra.

At certain times of the summer, so much plastic can accumulate on the Molinar beach (Palma) that swimming can become unhealthy. Due to tides and coastal currents, this is one of the points where the most dirt concentrates, but there is dirt everywhere. The government's coastal cleaning service removed a total of 7.1 tons of waste from the sea and coasts of the Balearic Islands during the month of July. This is 10.7% more than the 6.5 tons from July last year, and the Ministry of the Sea has detailed to ARA Balears that it plans to remove around 30 tons of waste in the 2026 season. Where did it come from?

The No to Waste Import platform has publicly denounced that "the problems have already begun" as a result of the transfer of waste from Ibiza to Mallorca to be incinerated at the Tirme plant. In a statement, the organization, made up of more than 20 entities, stated that a few days ago an "incident" occurred at the incinerator which would have been caused by waste from Ibiza.

A dozen social, environmental, and neighborhood organizations from Ibiza have denounced alleged discharges of wastewater from the Ibiza airport's treatment plant into the Torrent de la Font, which flows into the Ses Salines Natural Park. The organizations claim that four analysis campaigns carried out between June and July have detected contamination parameters that, according to their interpretation, would far exceed the limits established by regulations.

Llucmajor has activated the health emergency with the aim of launching the urgent collection of waste due to its accumulation in public spaces. The motion, which was unanimously approved in the City Council's plenary session, had been presented by PSIB and PSOE, MÉS per Llucmajor, Llibertat Llucmajor and S'Ull.

The 10% reduction in the waste treatment fee approved this Wednesday by the Plenary of the Consell de Mallorca has been, in part, overshadowed by the tough political debate over the Tirme concession. The PSIB and Més per Mallorca have reproached the president of the institution, Llorenç Galmés, for maintaining a model that, in their opinion, continues to favor the concessionaire despite the warnings issued by the control bodies of the Consell itself.

The pilot plan for the transfer of waste from Ibiza has begun with the left, the GOB and the residents of ground zero against it. For more than ten years, administrations have known that the Ca na Putxa landfill was at the end of its useful life, but no alternative infrastructures have been built and finally the decision has been made for Mallorca to take on this waste. The residents of Son Sardina and La Garriga have protested, because they consider that they will suffer the direct consequences. Therefore, they are joining the anti-massification demonstration on September 26. "Mallorca is at its limit, we are exceeding the red lines" assures Joan Mateos, representative of the La Garriga residents' association.

The ship that was to transport the waste from Ibiza to Mallorca finally arrived at the port of Palma in the early hours of last Wednesday, after incidents that had delayed its departure.

Representatives of 17 neighborhood and environmental organizations from Mallorca have promoted various initiatives against the imminent arrival of waste from the Pitiuses, including the establishment of a platform. As reported by GOB this Monday in a statement, the organizations have expressed their concern about the imminent arrival of this waste, stating that it could cause a risk of accidents and spills, in addition to bad smells and other nuisances.

Mallorca will begin to receive next Thursday seven daily trucks of waste from Ibiza, five days a week, with a total of 3,000 tons of garbage each month. The pilot test for the transfer of waste from the Pitiusa island, which the island councils approved last Tuesday, will cost 24.6 million euros, as stated in the documentation of the file that ARABalears advanced. The agreement has been drawn up over a year, hidden from the opposition –it was not delivered until the Transparency Council requested it–, and it includes a reduction in the environmental criteria initially foreseen.