The Consell de Mallorca reduces the price of processing fees for construction and demolition waste (CDW) by 4% by 2025, a type of waste that generates average volume of 600,000 tonnes per year on the island and which allows a high rate of recycling and recovered materials.
The president of the establishment, Llorenç Galmés, appeared this Friday at a press conference to report the new prices resulting from the annual review provided for in the contract with the concessionaire of the public waste treatment service MAC Insular. Galmés was accompanied by the second vice president and advisor for Environment, Rural Affairs and Sports, Pierre Bestard, and the island director of Waste, Margalida Roig.
Specifically, The RCD rate will drop from 43.99 euros per tonne in 2024 to 42.23 euros, which represents a drop of 4% for next year, being the largest of the revised fractions.
This type of waste comes from public or private works, renovations, demolitions, rehabilitations, which are for the most part recoverable and can be used, among other uses, as new aggregates for construction.
The president of the island institution declared that “in one year of his mandate the rate of construction waste has been reducedwhich accumulates the greatest number of tons of processing in the concessionary company”, thanks, he explained, “to the economic factors of the concession and the great effort that we have made to respect one of the commitments of the pact government, that of “Don’t increase RCD waste rates.”
Llorenç Galmés explained that “a very large percentage of the waste generated on the island comes from the construction sector, which is why the reuse and recycling of these materials is very important, because benefits the costs of companies in the sector and, what’s more, it contributes to a reduction in pollution.
This increase in collection, as well as the high percentage of recycling of these materials (98%) means that Mallorca has a a “more circular and sustainable” economyat the same time that “pollution is reduced,” Galmés said.
For his part, the Minister of the Environment explained that “this reduction in the rate of rubble waste will benefit many companies which have work in progress and which are also materials with great recycling potential”.
Likewise, the annual revision of tariffs also envisages a 8.8% reduction in the bulky waste fraction (RV), and will be paid at 178.12 euros/tonne, with processing estimated at 54,943 tonnes per year. This category includes furniture, mattresses and other large objects which, due to their dimensions, require different management from those of domestic origin.
Finally, the rates for other fractions of electrical and electronic waste remain unchanged.
