Councillor of Agriculture, Maria Jose Martinez, reported that for the first time, and echoing the City of Cehegín of a historical demand of local farmers, especially those of the districts, has enabled the cooperative of Canaraflor a collection point of agricultural plastic waste.
This, which will be open from 9 to 14 hours, can be used every Wednesday Township farmers need.
This collection point, whose implementation has helped the City Council, the Canaraflor cooperative and Befesa Plastics, will be enabled so that it can be collected, among other things, plastic greenhouses disused irrigation pipes , etc, and avoid burning them, a practice that is prohibited and punishable by law.
This measure, as explained by the Councillor, "answers a need in rural areas, that have made us reach the farmers themselves, to keep it clean while plastics can be recycled for new uses, thus obtaining a double advantage: in good condition conservation of the countryside and recycling of products. "
On the other, the mayor has also commented on the points in Cehegín in which there is the collection of pesticide packaging marked with the logo SIGFITO, belonging to the company Agroenvases SL, non-lucrocreada order to organize unsistema collection of agricultural packaging to give them a proper environmental treatment.
They are: Agrosum Cehegín;
Monte y Mar in Santa Pola, SL;
Agrolux-Jupiter, SLL, Agromul Cehegín SL and SL Canaraflor
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín