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The municipal company has been awarded Limusa second consecutive with the highest award in the area of ​​sustainability is granted in Spain for its technological and awareness in the management of street cleaning, respect the environment and waste management "serve to keep improving the quality of life and sustainability of our cities and industries," says the act of concession.

The statue "Platinum Broom 'has been collected on the premises of fair grounds Juan Carlos I in Madrid (IFEMA) by the local mayor, Francisco Jodar, and the manager of the publicly traded, Santos Gonzalez, during the International Week of the Planning and Environment TECMA, which closes Friday.

At the conclusion of the event, Jodar has highlighted the fact that "the event aims to support, reward and disseminate the proper know-how of the management of urban and industrial waste as well as project design and development of technologies that enable management our environment sustainable. "

The City of Lorca, through Limusa management, won the first nomination of platinum in 2008, being then the first local authority in the Autonomous Community of Murcia in taking the top prize of prizes awarded Technical Association for Waste Management and Environment (Ategrus).

With this second bay, Lorca enters the exclusive club of two or more municipalities with Platinum awards among which are municipalities such as Laredo, Oviedo or Donostia.

The jury awarded the Platinum Broom in its thirteenth edition this innovation and process automation and management of resources in terms of street cleaning, waste collection and treatment thereof.

Limusa manager, Santos Gonzalez, has greatly valued "new investments in machinery have reached almost 100% of the industrial fleet and an investment of around a million and half euros in just 18 months", and their advocacy and communication initiatives to promote the collection, and "improving staffing ratios in recycling infrastructure," the results achieved through a sound economic and financial management. "

Among its environmental values, the mean Platinum Broom lorquina distinguish bet by the requirement that new vehicles meet the emissions standards of Euro 5, which ensures a 80% reduction in particulate emissions compared to Euro 4 and 20% of the emissions of nitrogen oxides.

And water use for the tasks of scrubbing and flushing with excess water use of the swimming pool of San Antonio, among other actions.

While determining the project has been running in its first phase of the new line of treatment developed in the Waste Management Centre of Barranco Hondo will triple the throughput on incoming litter, reducing the amount of material intended to landfill.

The project has an investment in the Autonomous Region estimated at 3.6 million euros.

The grantee organization of the awards has demonstrated a particular sensitivity to the extraordinary worked developed after the earthquakes of 2011 "and that even today are provided for the establishment of normalcy in the city," added Gonzalez, to pay all its forces, human and mechanics, about the aftermath of the disaster by removing debris, collecting belongings from the streets, developing humanitarian work as the making and distribution of food and even managing infrastructure maintenance of the shelters for the displaced, as the camps that hosted deterrent homeless citizens.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca