The Department of the Environment urges citizens and users in general to use the municipal eco-park before misusing the containers distributed throughout the urban area and its outskirts in order to ensure proper maintenance of optimal hygiene and health conditions , facilitating proper environmental management of waste. Totana City Council has repeatedly requested that the urban solid waste (MSW) containers be properly used in the areas of the Orchards and districts during the summer season. The municipal eco-park offers home waste collection services for plant pruning, furniture and other belongings in order to avoid their deposit in containers in an inappropriate way. In this sense, it is recommended to contact the municipal eco-park that provides these specific waste removal services that are not deposited in the containers, by phone 968 425 308. In summer, the use of selective collection containers such as residual fraction waste located in the suburbs, especially in the area of ??the Orchards and districts, is usually increased, due to the displacement of residents to second residences during the summer. In this municipal facility, citizens can deposit household waste, such as rubble, furniture and fixtures, pruning waste from private gardens, paintings, batteries, X-rays, lights, mobiles, computers, ink cartridges, electrical appliances, and so on. The improper use of containers causes, especially at this time, great difficulties in the collection service, a poor state of cleanliness of the containers and their surroundings, as well as a deplorable image of the rural environment, also generating a series of problems economic, social, environmental and public health added. The misuse of the containers, depositing improper waste or outside of these, constitutes an infraction and carries the corresponding sanction under the environmental regulations applicable to waste, which can range from 900 euros if it is slight to 45,000 euros if this is a very serious offense.
