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Environmental educators visited the festival areas, encouraging residents to recycle glass to meet the recycling challenge set by Ecovidrio. The residents of Torrevieja recycled a total of 3,153,867 kilograms of glass containers. This means that each resident recycled an average of 31.4 kilograms of glass. Torrevieja has an average of 100 inhabitants per container, and currently has a total of 996 glass recycling containers installed throughout the municipality.

The main objective of this initiative is to promote and consolidate gastronomy as a first-rate tourist resource and an excellent tourist product throughout the Valencian Community.

The Torrevieja City Council, through the Department of Equality and Women headed by Inmaculada Montesinos, joins the events of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is commemorated on November 25.

It has received an investment of 1,350,000 euros, in a collaboration between the Valencian Regional Government, the Torrevieja City Council and the ADIEM Foundation. The mayor has announced that in 2026, alongside these new facilities, construction will begin on a residence for people with extreme support needs.

The Mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, reports that the Torrevieja City Council, through the Department of NGOs and Volunteering, and once the bidding process has concluded, has provisionally awarded the contract to the company Francisco M. Juárez Pozuelo for the drafting of the basic and execution project, the health and safety plan and the waste management plan for the construction of the new Day Centre for people with Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases "Tomás Ballester Herrera".

The duration of the contract will be four years plus a possible one-year extension, with the base tender budget being 1,198,143 euros (VAT included).

In this way, the center will be used as a family meeting point, a residence for people with functional diversity and a residence for functional diversity for children and adolescents.

A registration period has been opened until March 15 at www.controlaclub.org or www.servicioresponsable.org, so that any hospitality or nightlife company in the city can obtain the program badge and enter the Network of Establishments Torrevieja officials

Thanks to this initiative, the citizens of Torrevieja will be able to learn about the importance of recycling glass and how much each individual contributes with this simple gesture.

Remind all citizens that prior appointments to obtain the voucher in person can be picked up tomorrow, Tuesday, November 28, and on Wednesday, November 29, at the Commerce Office, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

With this new work team, the aim is to reinforce control over the service itself and detect breaches by some companies and citizens on a daily basis, and which are included in the Municipal Urban Cleaning Ordinance, with infractions ranging from 50-750 euros.

The Councilor for Urban Cleaning of the Torrevieja City Council, Diana Box Alonso, reports that Acciona, the company awarded the waste collection, landfill transport, street cleaning and coastal cleaning and maintenance service, has already begun the implementation of the new equipment of underground containers to house the remaining fraction.

The mayor of Commerce has indicated that a period of public participation will open next week, in which more than 60 selected city establishments will be interviewed in order to have first-hand the precise information to determine the form of management by the that you will have to choose