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In the morning, at the Center for Citizen Participation, the City Sewer, through its Mayor, Joaquín Buendía, accompanied by the Town Planning, Construction and Services, Laura Sandoval Otálora, together with the representative of the concessionaire waste collection, Actua-UTE Acciona, Maria del Carmen Cordoba, have launched the new collection service and used batteries in the municipality, based on the installation of specific containers in stores batteries, municipal facilities and public schools, with the slogan "Sewer put the batteries"
To Buendia, the collaboration of "the aim of this initiative is to facilitate the citizen the proper management of this waste, which, causing a major environmental impact if not managed properly, independently of conventional organic waste. It is essential businesses and institutions to facilitate recycling neighbors such as hazardous waste to our environment.
This service also includes, next to the collection container batteries, delivering a distinctive sticker and a poster of the information campaign, as a partner in the management of these wastes. "
The City Sewer through Actua-Acciona, a company responsible for managing municipal waste, carry out the maintenance and collection of containers of batteries, which must be placed in a conspicuous place accessible to citizens.
Furthermore, the workplace "with large numbers of people" who wish to have a deposit may apply to the Service Area, Parks and Gardens, phone 968 89 39 20, or phone service collection, 968 883 102.
The Town Planning, Construction and Services, Laura Sandoval, said that "on the municipal website of the City Sewer, can consult the list of trades and associates in which collection bins are located."
The concessionaire responsible Actua-Acciona, Maria del Carmen Cordova said that "Batteries contain heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury and lead, harmful substances that pose a potential health and environmental hazard. On contact with water, mercury batteries form a substance called methyl mercury, a highly toxic compound found and concentrate in food chains in humans causing various health disorders and ecosystems ".
He also informed that this initiative has been done in other municipalities and with a major success and an important collaboration of the citizens of these municipalities, extremely involved in these campaigns so necessary for everyone. "
In a video, attendees had the opportunity to check other relevant data on waste batteries and battery such as an alkaline battery which can contaminate 175,000 liters of water, which becomes the average water consumption of six people throughout his life, as well as common or zinc-carbon battery can pollute 3,000 liters of water, or a zinc contaminate 12,000 liters of water or as the silver oxide battery can contaminate 14,000 liters of water.
Laura Sandoval, continued to increase the need for this new service "a micropile mercury button, seemingly harmless by its diminutive size, contaminates 600,000 liters of water, which is the average water consumption of thirty people throughout their life."
Both councilor, as mayor, even by their own associations and groups gathered at the presentation were given, they wrapped the need to call on citizens to "complicity" with the municipal initiative, saying that "no one will have reason to throw a battery in the wrong place. "
Mayor Joaquin Buendia said that a change in attitudes and habits of this type of waste, from the philosophy of 'throwaway' philosophy of 'use and recycle', based on responsible consumption "is necessary ".
The campaign provides for the placement of 200 cylindrical containers of batteries and other runs of used batteries, 500 posters in stores, 18,000 informational flyer will be included in the letters of municipal water bills, large posters will be placed on advertising stop shelters bus in the city, as well as information campaigns in schools, as well as associations and citizen groups, business, commercial, hospitality and public schools themselves.
This link to the official website of the City Sewer, www.alcantarilla.es, particularly this link http://www.alcantarilla.es/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/UBICACION-CONTENEDORES-PILAS.pdf it is available to citizens all collection points have been set, waiting to have an excellent reception.
Collection points will be indicative adhesives in which it is stated that is a collaborated.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla
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