The Town Council of Chipiona (Cadiz) has renewed its confidence in FCC for the 10-year Municipal refuse collection and transport contract. • The total contract value of the contract is worth more than €14 million.

FCC has collected waste in Chipiona since 2006. The town has a population of some 20,000 inhabitants, which increases considerably during the summer months to 120,000, reaching 150,000 on weekends. An average of 35 tonnes of waste is collected in the town in winter, rising to 85 tonnes in the summer and exceeding 100 tonnes on some weekends.

FCC will add new and innovative vehicles to the service, designed and adapted to Chipiona’s needs. The improvements proposed by FCC include waste collection controlled by a GPS computer system that records the routes followed by the lorries and containers’ location and condition. With this system, FCC’s supervisors by the control centre may instantly know whether  the route is properly undertaken or there is a problem, and are therefore capable to quickly react and solve the incidence.

For the correct management of the operations, FCC has replaced the rear-loading collection system by a side-loading system, it has also strengthened the upper- loading system, considerably improving the service.

FCC Group is adding six collection vehicle units and one inside-and-outside container washing equipment, as well as a high-pressure water, cleaning and disinfection device for intensive cleaning around he groups of containers.

As an innovation, FCC will provide the town with three electric vehicles for inspecting the service and monitoring the container condition, and another one for Council’s management and supervision. Self-compacting equipments will also be installed for dealing with beach waste and the food market refuse.

To collect gardening waste, the company is putting a shredder into service, making possible thus to use the remains as mulch in the town’s green areas, a technique used widely in gardening to retain moisture and create humus.

In order to eliminate container’s visual impact from some streets, FCC will install 84 underground containers and 21 ecological islands along the city.

FCC will also provide Chipiona residents with special equipment for removing bulky goods and old furniture in morning and afternoon shifts, with a capacity to collect up to 8 tonnes daily.