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The celebration of the various activities has led to the collection of 22,220 kilos of urban waste in the period between the start day, Friday, and Monday morning.

The biggest growth compared to last year has been the garbage collection of the containers installed in the Feria de la Rueda Fairgrounds, reaching 18,280 kilos this year, three times more than the previous one

The Councilor of Municipal Companies of the City of Lorca, Juan Francisco Martinez, made a balance this morning of the garbage collection generated during the first weekend of Fair by Limusa.

Juan Francisco Martinez said that "the many leisure activities that have taken place in different squares and streets of the city, as in the Huerto de la Rueda and the large influx of visitors and lorquinos to both locations have generated during the first weekend This event represents more than twice as much garbage as in the same period last year. The celebration of the different activities has led to the collection of 22,220 kilos of urban waste in the period between the day of beginning, Friday, and Monday morning, which is attributed to Sunday as a night extension of the festive day.

The Councilor for Municipal Companies explained that "the greatest growth compared to 2016 has occurred in the collection of garbage from the containers installed in the fairground of the Garden of the Wheel, reaching to reach 18,280 kilos this year, three times more than the previous one.It should be remembered that in the Orchard of the Wheel there are deposited half a hundred containers-paper, in addition to 40 units of 1,000 liters.

Martinez, on the other hand, has indicated that "for days, Saturday was the most fruitful to double the figures on both Friday and Sunday.In this sense, the first night of the fair weighed 4,160 kilos while on Sunday were 4,420 kilos On Saturday, 9,700 kilos accumulated in the Garden of the Wheel, which means that the collection has doubled compared to 2016. Regarding the Day Fair, the success harvested the previous year is supported by the numbers, as it has been equalized the amount of heavy wastes from the mechanical sweep, around 4,000 kilos, in particular, collected 2,020 kilos on Saturday and 1,680 kilos on Sunday.

The Edil de Empresas Municipales has added that "what has declined has been the amount of garbage collected with the vans of road cleaning, due to a greater citizen use of the thirty containers of 90 liters established in the area where the Fair of Day, and that distinguished with the characteristic emblem.It has been changed from 960 kilos in 2016 to 240 kilos this year in the same period of time.It is important to note that sweepers clean the spaces that host the leisure morning, evening and night, such as the squares of San Vicente, Calderón, Lorca Plaza, Saharawi Village, Blood Donors and Plaza de España, as well as the streets of Santo Domingo, Lope Gisbert, Nogalte, Álamo and Corredera. Feria de 2017 also includes, apart from the collection trucks, flushing cisterns, two hydro-cleaning equipment, scrubber and vans ".

Juan Francisco Martínez emphasized that "with all this, one could expect that these quantities will multiply in the second half of the 2017 Fair, since between Thursday and Sunday the largest influx of visitors occurs, coinciding also with the Regional Fair of It should be noted that the forecast for these four days is to triple what was generated last year, if it follows the evolution of the collection and cleaning indicators ".

The Councilor of Municipal Companies, lastly, wanted to thank "the workers of Limusa the great task that they develop during this Fair so that Lorca is a clean city and show its best face. Our city arrive thousands of visitors these dates that they want to enjoy our fair, but also hope to find the city clean, and this is demonstrated by the figures we have analyzed today as more garbage has been collected than the previous year thanks to the daily work of fifty hundred operators of Limusa.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca