Calasparra Town Hall has taken a decisive step towards sustainability by presenting the campaign «Brown is Life» (Marrón es Vida) that signifies the separate collection of organic material in our area.
The Head of the local Department of Environment, Pablo Cassinello, and the Coordinater of Municipal Services, Juan Antonio García, have presented the new equipment that will facilitate this service: two collection lorries; a tipper lorry; and a new consignment of rubbish containers.
This new service will be implanted progressively in different areas, villages and urbanizations on different dates that will be advertised in advance.
Organic material represents around 40% of the residues generated in homes. Separate collection is fundamental because these residues will be directly transported to a compost plant to be transformed into natural compost for our local agriculture under the logo «From the Table to the Earth».
In order for residents to comply with this campaign brown rubbish containers will be provided for food remains, fruit and vegetables peels, nut shells, tea and coffee grains and infusions, used napkins and kitchen roll, corks and small plant residues.
It is also important to use compostable bags, closed properly and without liquid.
Never throw in the brown container plastic, packaging, bottles, nappies or pads, cigartette ends or oil.
A single inappropriate residue can ruin the whole process so the rule is simple: if in doubt don´t throw it in the brown container.
This project is financed by the EU through the NextGenerationEU funds, within the framework of the Recuperation Plan of the Spanish Government, the Murcia region and with Calasparra Town Hall.
