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The City Council is reinforcing security and healthcare services in response to the high influx of visitors.

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 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).

The Councilor for the Environment of the Torrevieja City Council, Antonio Vidal, together with the Councilor for Education, Ricardo Recuero, the director-conservator of the Lagunas de La Mata-Torrevieja Natural Park, Francisco Martínez, and the deputy manager of AGAMED, Gemma Cruz , have presented this morning the planting and regeneration activities that will be carried out on the occasion of the celebration of Tree Day 2024. Some actions that will take place on January 31 and February 1, for schoolchildren from all centers Torrevieja schools.

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.

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.

It will include an economic feasibility study that serves as motivation for the decision to protect, rehabilitate and exploit the old facilities of the salt industry as tourist use with therapeutic-cultural-educational and recreational activities.

The future building will also have training classrooms, a university study room and multipurpose rooms, as well as the Office of the Department of Commerce, the Office of the Open Urban Shopping Center, the premises of the Local Development Agency (ADL) and its classrooms. specific for training and spaces to promote employment, in addition to creating multipurpose spaces for young people on the third floor (concert halls, rehearsals and/or meetings of youth associations)

Presented the business meeting "Gastronomy, tourism and agriculture of the Vega Baja: business opportunities and challenges", which is part of the "Focus SMEs and Entrepreneurship Vega Baja 22" program, and aims to promote the socioeconomic development of the Vega Baja of Safe through gastronomy and agriculture linked to tourist activity. The presentation of the meeting, which will be held on Wednesday, November 16, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., in the Torrevieja CdT, has been given by Domingo Paredes, Councilor for Development and Employment of the Torrevieja City Council; Joaquín Alcázar, Director of the European Center for Business and Innovation in Elche (CEEI); Rosa Fernández, manager of CONVEGA; and the Vice Mayor and Councilor for Tourism, Rosario Martínez. ATTACHED PROGRAM OF THE MEETING.

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.

The Association of Naturalists of the Southeast (ANSE), with the support of NaturGreen and under the direction of the Department of the Environment of the City Council of Torrevieja, directed by Antonio Vidal, has been advancing in the recovery of the plant formations of the Municipal Natural Park Molino del Water in La Mata. During the 2022 campaign, the implantation of 500 seedlings of dune species is planned in order to improve the vegetation cover and recover threatened species or species that became extinct in the province of Alicante.