Valoriza Medioambiente, Sacyr’s environmental services company, has started providing waste collection and street cleaning services in Reus, Tarragona, and Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid.
These contracts entail a great improvement in the services’ efficiency and sustainability and are worth €249 million in total.
Torrejón de Ardoz
Valoriza Medioambiente, in a temporary business association with FCC Medio Ambiente, has started providing waste collection and street cleaning services to the 130,000 residents of Torrejón de Ardoz for a 10-year term, and €142 million.
In this contract, the two companies will implement several measures to deliver a more efficient and sustainable service, such as the incorporation of a new environmentally-conscious fleet of vehicles (made up of heavy vehicles and compressed natural gas vans, auxiliary vehicles, sweeping machines, and street flushing machines and hybrid vehicles). Furthermore, the company will start a pilot for selective waste collection in the upcoming months.
This new service brings new noteworthy improvements.
Some of them are:
- More workers and waste collection on Sundays and holidays.
- Renewing all urban waste containers in the municipality and replacing 100 urban trash cans
- Promoting communication campaigns to raise citizen awareness on dog feces collection.
Reus contract
Valoriza Medioambiente, in a temporary business association with José Antonio Romero Polo (UTE Reus Net), has begun to provide waste collection and street cleaning services in Reus for a 10-year term and €106 million.
The temporary business association will provide services for the close to 104,000 residents of this municipality and strive to make them more sustainable and efficient. In order to do that, the company will replace all vehicles and machinery with an environmentally-conscious fleet of CNG-fueled and electric vehicles. It will also improve the street-cleaning and waste-collection operation by improving controls and traceability and better communication with citizens and the city hall.
Furthermore, this temporary business association will implement a door-to-door waste collection pilot and urban waste container e-lock, as well as renew all municipal containers.
Valoriza Medioambiente promotes sustainability and efficiency in all its services and focuses on its professionals, furthering the social economy and gender equality, facilitating work-life balance, and incorporation of universal access criteria.
