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.

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.

The Consell de Mallorca has not managed to authorize the administrative file to validate the agreement with Eivissa for the transfer of waste between the two islands. This situation formally prevents its signing and puts the start of the new inter-island system for managing the residual fraction on hold, just when the logistical device associated with the project is advanced and with a ship about to arrive in Eivissa, as reported by ARA Balears. Furthermore, it should be remembered that the Ca na Putxa landfill is close to reaching its operational limit.

A court in Palma has partially upheld a lawsuit filed by CCOO de l'Hàbitat against Tirme, UGT, and ARL for preventing the participation of the CCOO delegate in a meeting where labor issues were discussed.