Bestard on the transfer of waste from Ibiza: "They'll just take it."

Waste from Ibiza will be taken to Mallorca "and that's it," is how Pedro Bestard, the Minister of Environment, Rural Affairs, and Sports of the Mallorcan Council, responded to Catalina Inés Perelló, a member of MÉS for Mallorca, regarding the current status of the pilot plan for waste transfer.

It should be noted that this project "has no legal basis, since last week the Parliament of the Islands, with the vote of Vox, rejected a decree on strategic projects with which the government team wanted to cover a transfer of waste from Ibiza to Mallorca because it was included in a series of provisions," as Perelló explained.

The Minister of MÉS for Mallorca has criticized Bestard for "having no regulatory basis to support this operation, and yet they have not yet definitively closed any doors on this initiative, which can only bring problems to Mallorca." Therefore, she has asked him when they plan to abandon the pilot project for waste importation.

With the repeal of this regulation, Perelló reminded everyone that the island's institution will also no longer be able to access the 50 million euros that the Government was supposed to give it to offset the environmental costs of waste imports.

Bestard responded that they will not renounce the initiative and assured them that they are working to "try to fix what was not approved in Parliament." He added that the island's governing team "will take steps to ensure the waste can be transported and we will obtain the 50 million euros. We will not renounce this; it will be done," he asserted.

Along the same lines, he criticized MÁS for stating that this initiative can be implemented because the eco-sovereignty movement implemented it in a law. However, Perelló asked Bestard to submit the file approving the pilot test for waste imports.

The PP wants to turn Mallorca into a dumping ground

MÁS por Mallorca believes that this operation responds to a "centralist and unbalanced" vision of territorial management. "The PP wants to turn Mallorca into the dumping ground for the islands, as if the territory were infinite and our island model had no limits," warned Perelló. "It's not just a question of waste: it's a question of institutional respect between islands, of environmental sovereignty, and of dignity for Mallorca. We cannot accept that the PP's political decisions condemn us to being the dunghill of their erroneous policies," he stated.

Perelló explained that the transfer of waste from Ibiza to Mallorca "makes no environmental sense" and "contradicts the principles of proximity and self-sufficiency" enshrined in both the State Waste Law and European regulations. "Waste must be managed as close as possible to where it is generated. This is a basic rule to guarantee sustainable, responsible management that is consistent with the island's reality," Perelló emphasized.