The Local Government Board approved the award of the service to the company UTE FCC Arema Girona for an amount of 168 million euros for the 8 yearsFILED UNDER: Environment TOPICS Street cleaning Waste collectionStreet cleaning Waste collectionGirona City Council has awarded the new contract for road cleaning and waste collection in the city.The company in charge of carrying out these tasks in the next 8 years will be the UTE FCC Arema Girona, made up of FCC Medio Ambiente SAU and Agua, Residuos y Medio Ambiente SA.“We are now in the final stretch of a process that has been long and complex, but which has served to define a cleaning and waste collection model that resolves the shortcomings of the previous contract that we inherited, whose service did not meet quality standards that this government wanted.The new contract includes many improvements that citizens will surely notice as they are implemented, and whose objective is to have a cleaner Girona and also meet the challenges in waste recycling that the European Union will force us to do in the coming years.With the award that we have made today, we only need the last formalities, so if there is nothing new, we will comply with the will that the new cleaning contract is already being implemented this autumn”, said the Councilor for Cleaning and Collection of Waste of the City Council of Gerona, Eduard Berloso.The award was approved this morning by the Local Government Board for a total amount of 168,075,747.53 euros (VAT included).The cost of street cleaning is 81,809,171.08 euros (VAT included) and waste collection, 86,266,576.45 euros (VAT included).The main novelty of this new contract is the cleaning with pressurized water in all the streets on a weekly or fortnightly basis.It also highlights the increase in services included in areas such as manual sweeping in streets, squares and gardens;as well as the reinforcement of the collection of dog faeces, the specific cleaning of gardens or parks and the removal of weeds on sidewalks and paved areas three times a year.The services linked to special events such as the San Narciso Fairs, the major neighborhood festivals or Temps de Flors are also increased;and those related to specific episodes such as specific cleaning in nightlife areas, or collecting leaves during the autumn.With regard to waste collection, the new contract plans the implementation of different selective collection models throughout the city to improve recycling rates.Three models are proposed based on the majority urban typology of each neighbourhood.One of them is the grouped door-to-door or smart containers that will be implemented where there is a higher population density.The other model is the home door-to-door that will be carried out where single-family home models predominate.And, finally, there are the temporary collection areas, a specific model for the Barri Vell and the Mercadal.In January, the municipalization of the indirect management waste collection and transport and cleaning service was approved by a plenary session, as advised by both a study of alternatives for the different forms of management that was commissioned to an external audit and the different technical sustainability reports , legal services and economic services of the consistory.This system guarantees the continuity of workers and their working conditions.The duration of the contract is established at 8 years, and will begin once the agreement has been formalized, being implemented gradually in the initial phase.It should be noted that no extensions are planned.The most relevant information of the sector directly in your mail.The Barcelona municipalities that lead selective collection opt for individualized systemsRead now issue 200 of Municipal Equipment and ServicesThe University of Malaga develops a system to measure the benefits of urban treesValdemoro continues to rely on FCC Environment for the management of the waste collection serviceThe Tarragona Low Emissions Zone begins to take shape