This morning, Enrique Villarroya, mayor of Jaca (Huesca), inaugurated a new municipal waste management centre which was built by FCC. Investment totalled over 1,295,000 euro.

The centre will be managed by FCC, which has been collecting and disposing of municipal solid waste and cleaning streets and sewers in Jaca since 1990.

The facility has a total floor area of 6,516 square meters and will house the skips, the fleet of waste collection vehicles, mechanical workshops and the offices.

It will also include a classroom for providing environmentally-themed courses, which all schools in the city are expected to attend, and a free 2,275 square-metre civic amenity (CA) site for waste which cannot be deposited in existing skips, i.e. furniture, appliances, scrap metal, rubble, fluorescent tubes, batteries and used clothing. Bulk cardboard, paper and plastic may also be recycled at the site.

Access will be limited to vehicles weighing 3,500 kg or less. Car waste such as batteries and oil, and toxic waste and spray cans may not be deposited at the CA site due to the hazard; there is a specific disposal site for those items.

Leaders in Urban Sanitation

In 2008, FCC was awarded contracts totalling 2.887 billion euro for urban sanitation activities in Spain (waste collection, street cleaning, municipal waste management, facility management, garden maintenance, sewer cleaning, etc.), i.e. twice the 2007 figure.

FCC provides urban sanitation services (waste collection, street cleaning, municipal waste management, garden cleaning, etc.) in 3,597 of Spain's 8,100 municipalities, where it billed 1.440 billion euro in 2008, compared with 1.350 billion euro in 2007. The company serves 27 million people.

FCC's backlog in this area has expanded steadily and now amounts to 8.926 billion euro, i.e. 21.7% more than at 2007 year-end and equivalent to 70 months' work.

FCC also provides these services in the United Kingdom, Central Europe and Latin America, where revenues totalled over 1 billion euro.