The president of the Provincial Council of CordobaSalvador Fuentes, announced this Wednesday that the Provincial Society of Waste and Environment (Epremasa) returns to a balanced budget for the current year and announces investments totaling 35 million for 2025.
Fuentes, accompanied by the president of Epremasa, Andrés Lorite, clarified that “in 2023 we will find a deficit of 7 million euros. Likewise, by 2024, if we had not taken the decisions adopted by the government team, including an increase in rates of 40.8%, we would have closed the accounts with a deficit of 9.6 million.
“However, the political cost of the increase in prices has been assumed and two million euros have been injected by the Provincial Delegation of Cordoba, which leads us to speak of a balanced budget for the end of 2024 for a company that provides exemplary service in the province,” added Fuentes.
For the president of the provincial institution, “we have thus gone from a threat of closure of the provincial company to achieving balanced accounts, and this translates into job security and the possibility of “approach a historic planning of investments in an entity which “is a model in its sector at the Andalusian level.”
The fifth container
Already in relation to 2025, Fuentes detailed that “it is planned an increase in the garbage rate of 1 euro per household per month, or 12 euros per year, an increase given to us by the entry into force in April of law 7”. /2022 of the Circular Economy, which results in the implementation of the fifth container.
“This is a consequence of the scenario that opens up to us by 2025 with a deficit of 2.5 million euros, which will be determined by the fifth container and the landfill tax, of which the government law central requires that it have a direct impact on citizens. 100%,” Fuentes said.
The president of the Provincial Council also referred to the investments planned for next year and “which will result in the start-up of compaction plants in the municipalities of Dos torres, Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo, Montoro, Nueva Carteya and Itinerary“.
To these actions, continued Fuentes, “the compaction transfer station will be added in the Upper Guadalquivir. Two axes which concentrate an investment of 11.5 million euros to which will be added the 5 million recently approved balances which will go to the Montoro compaction press and the transfer containers (650.00 euros); “to underground containers (795,000 euros), refining (255,000 euros), replacement of 1,500 containers and the Montalbán environmental complex (3.5 million euros).”
“In total, 16.5 million euros, to which will be added more than 18 from Europe and the Andalusian government, which will allow us to make a qualitative and quantitative leap in sustainability in the Montalbán factory to become a reference at European level.” Fuentes remarked.
For his part, the PSOE spokesperson At the Provincial Council of Córdoba, José Antonio Romero reproached the provincial government team that “the profit planned for Epremasa should be in the pockets of the citizens, to whom the PP put their hand in the wallet with the gross increase in the rate of waste up to 40.8 percent“, this is why he demanded from the Provincial Council “a zero increase”, that “there is no increase in garbage revenue in 2025”.
