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The team of researchers from the University of Alicante, led by Professor Rosa María Martínez Espinosa, is studying the use of halophilic microorganisms to clean contaminated water and brines before they are returned to the sea. Microorganisms consume these contaminants as food and make them disappear. At the same time, they create a biomass that can be used to make bioplastics. A raw material that can replace polluting plastics.

Last Friday, January 21, a meeting of the Salt Eras Advisory Commission was held, chaired by the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, in which the architecture firm PAREDES PEDROSA was presented to said group. ARQUITECTOS, SLP, office that has been proposed as the successful bidder for the Project, construction management and health and safety coordination of the Museo del Mar, a Multipurpose Enclosure with the main purpose of holding the International Habaneras Contest, as well as its complementary infrastructures and urbanization area, for an award amount of 660,660 euros.

The Councilor for Parks and Gardens, Carmen Gómez Candel, informs that the pruning of the palm trees in the municipality of Torrevieja has already begun. Following the guidelines set by the Order of December 22, 2009, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, which establishes mandatory phytosanitary measures for the control and eradication of the plague Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (red palm weevil), in its article 6.4 indicates: The local corporations will ensure that in their municipality, the pruning of palm trees on their property is carried out in winter, from January to February.

Sandra Sánchez has reported that the winning company has been PAVASAL EMPRESA CONSTRUCTORA SA, and the total amount of the contract amounts to 47,908 euros. The works will last three weeks.

The contract, which is valid for four years (2+2), amounts to a total of 4,000,000 euros, which represents an investment of 1,000,000 euros per year

The land where the building is to be built belongs to the City Council and the legal formula for surface rights has been used as the most viable formula. As consideration, the Torrevieja City Council obtains the use of a total of 1,488, 23 square meters of the building to be built, having full availability from the first day from the commissioning of the building on the second, third and attic floors, in the The multifunctional educational center will be located, while the ground and first floors will be made available to the AGAMED company offices. In addition, it should be noted that the City Council will receive ownership of the entire building built, including the ground floor, first floor and basement from the end of the contract.

AGAMED, the mixed economy company formed by the Torrevieja City Council and Hidraqua, has signed a collaboration agreement with Alimentos Solidarios Torrevieja to launch an initiative to help those most vulnerable groups and promote sustainability among citizens. The company agrees to donate 1 euro to Alimentos Solidarios for each client who requests the digital invoice before June 5, 2022, World Environment Day.

On December 1, the face-to-face sale of 3.0 bonds will open at the Office of Commerce and Occupation of Public Roads. On Friday, December 3 from 4:00 p.m., the online sale will open. The sum of the three editions amounts to a total investment by the Torrevieja City Council of 1,500,000 euros, which represents an economic impact of 3,000,000 euros

Of the 36 trades that the SICTED covers, there are 15 represented in Torrevieja, led in the number of distinguished by restaurants, bars and cafeterias, shops and hotels, also participating municipal agencies such as beaches, citizen security, natural park and tourism

The Councilor for Infrastructure, Sandra Sánchez, and the Councilor for Mobility, Federico Alarcón, attended a new edition of Trafic last Tuesday, November 2, under the slogan "Connect to urban mobility", in which the focus on the Strategy for Safe, Sustainable and Connected Mobility 2030, according to the objectives set by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, MITMA, and the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, MITERD.

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Three Belgian journalists representing several important media in the Flemish market, Tom Marees, from the SeriorenNet medium focused on an audience over 60, Dominique Trachet, from Primo, specialized in lifestyle and Birgit Defoort, general director of a tourism consultancy have participated in a guided tour with bird watching in the Natural Park of the Lagunas de Torrevieja and La Mata, carried out by the company Oxytours and in the company of the representative of PROVIA, Diego Bascuñanma. Your journey through the south of the Costa Blanca will continue through the neighboring city of Orihuela.

The Torrevieja headquarters of the UA gave a theoretical-practical Biotechnology-based course focused on knowing the diversity of microorganisms that live in the water column and sediments of the Laguna Rosa de Torrevieja and similar ecosystems, as well as highlighting the importance of microorganisms Extremophiles of these ecosystems in the natural environment.

A total of 1,190 luminaires will be replaced thanks to a subsidy of 912,620 euros granted by the Alicante Provincial Council.The new LED luminaires have an energy saving forecast of 53%, which will mean the saving of more than 70,000 euros in monetary value yearly on the electricity bill

This familiarization trip (fam trip) has been organized by the Provincial Tourist Board of the Costa Blanca, in collaboration with the Torrevieja City Council and the Spanish Tourism Office in Copenhagen

During its stay in these European cities, Pascual Flores has received about 12,000 visitors, who have come on board to learn about its history and the fabulous maritime heritage of Torrevieja that this ship represents, as an itinerant "ambassador" for tourism and cultural promotion. of the city and a symbol of the classic Mediterranean sailing ships In the month of October it will arrive again at the port of Torrevieja but before that it will participate in the Escala a Castelló Maritime Festival