What a load of rubbish

BENIDORM Council has decided to stop relying on the regional rubbish transport service and take the refuse directly to the landfill site in El Campello.

The decision comes after Vaersa, a publicly owned company dependent on the Valencian government, increased the cost of transportation from the Benidorm transference centre to El Campello by 5.4 per cent.

Over the last two years, the service for all the towns in the Marina Alta and Baja has become 35 per cent more expensive. By using their own lorries to transport the refuse directly, Benidorm council expects to save more than €1.1 million a year.

Benidorm Town Hall is the first in the Marina Baja to cancel the contract with Vaersa over the ever­rising rates that currently make the service more than 21 per cent more expensive than in Denia, de­

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