Algeciras unveils 215 containers and will recover the Parque Fluvial del Río Pícaro

Residents of Algeciras have had 215 new side-loading containers for the collection of the residual fraction since last July. Each has a capacity of 3,000 litres and their award amounted to 200,934 euros. The equipment reinforces Algesa's material resources for urban waste collection tasks. The purchase was made by the Mancomunidad de Municipios del Campo de Gibraltar charged to the subsidy from the Ministry of Finance and was managed by the public company ARCGISA, which formalised the delivery of the containers to the Algeciras City Council.

The agreement also provides for the restoration and conservation of the Parque Fluvial del Río Pícaro, with a budget of 1,045,389.28 euros (VAT included). The intervention seeks to recover and enhance this natural space by improving green areas, renewing equipment and creating pedestrian access in the surroundings. To this is added the construction of other facilities to strengthen the city's services, with an investment of 558,699.06 euros (VAT included). They will be infrastructures adapted to current environmental regulations, designed with criteria of energy efficiency and reduction of polluting emissions. All these actions are financed with a nominative subsidy of two million euros destined for Algeciras, included in the collaboration agreement for the 2024 financial year signed between the General State Administration, through the Ministry of Finance, the Mancomunidad de Municipios del Campo de Gibraltar and the Algeciras City Council, as detailed by the Mancomunidad. The agreement is part of the measures of the Plan para el Campo de Gibraltar, approved by the Council of Ministers on November 16, 2018, and is framed within the cooperation between administrations to address the needs of the region and improve its infrastructures and public services.