More Madrid has prepared a report in which the inequality in cleaning services by the Madrid City Councilwith a “much smaller” investment in southern and eastern districts of the capital.
According to the conclusions of the study, the southern and eastern districts receive the 39% of the budget when its surface represents the 46% of the total surface of the city, while 61% of the budget is dedicated to the rest, although they only concentrate 54% of the surface.
In this way, according to the study, the Madrid City Council invests only 2.54 euros per square meter in Villa de Vallecas3.53 euros in Latina and just five euros in Villaverde, User and Carabanchelwhile allocating 14 euros per square meter to Centeralmost nine to Chamberi and seven to Salamanca.
“The conclusions are, simply, devastating,” said the spokeswoman for More Madrid at City Hall, Rita Maestrefor whom waste management by the Almeida Government “has been terrible in these five and a half years”. “This year it had to modify the contracts to increase the frequency of collection, given that its initial forecasts were not adapted to the real needs of the population,” the Municipal Group recalled.
In general terms, he pointed out, the capital’s City Council has invested 40% less in waste awareness campaigns than in 2018. On the other hand, The advertising campaign with the greatest investment is the one aimed at promoting tourism.
The report, prepared in-house, analyzes four variables: intensity of cleaning, investment in cleaning, location of waste treatment infrastructure and citizens’ assessment of the services.
At the budget level, as highlighted in the report, all southern and eastern districts are below the average investment in cleaning. “The City Council invests almost the same money in cleaning the southern districts when some of them double the surface area of other districts of the city, it is not at all proportional, since more budget is allocated to the richest districts,” he denounced.
Some differences that, according to Más Madrid, can be seen in even more detail if the investment in cleaning by surface of sidewalks and roads is analyzed for each district. In this comparison (the result of dividing the budget of each district by the surface in meters of sidewalks and roads that are cleaned), the total investment in the city is 4.66 euros/square meter and the average is 5.29 euros /square meter.
According to the conclusions of the study, all southern and eastern districts are below average for investment in cleaning and only the districts of Arganzuela, Salamanca, Chamartín, Retiro, Chamberí, Tetuán and Centro are above that average.
In the rest of the city, the report highlights the “meager” 2.54 euros per square meter invested in Villa de Vallecas, 3.53 in Latina compared to 7 euros per square meter in Salamanca, for example. “Again, The most vulnerable districts are those with the worst conditions“he remarks.
Investment per inhabitant: from 50 in Latina to 102 in Chamartín
A pattern that is also repeated with respect to investment per inhabitant, with an average investment per person and year of 86.12 euros. In this case, for each inhabitant of the district of Latin Only 50 euros are invested a year to clean its streets, compared to 102 euros for the neighbor of Chamartin or the 81 euros of Salamanca.
Regarding intensity, the study concludes that in the southern and eastern districts, whose streets make up 46% of the entire city, only 6% of them are cleaned at the highest level, while in the rest of the districts They clean 12% of their streets with this intensity.
“Barely 2% of Villa de Vallecas is cleaned with maximum intensity, compared to 32% of Chamberí at that same level,” they point out from Más Madrid, which highlights as an example that 28% of the surface of the Retiro district is cleaned with a level 1 intensity, while only 3% of Villaverde is cleaned with this same intensity.
“The Madrid City Council allocates fewer resources for cleaning and collection in the southern and eastern districts of the city, which translates into worse cleaning and waste management services, generating an inequality gap with the rest of the city,” he said. censored.
All of this also translates into a more negative perception and more complaints, claims and notices from residents who live on the outskirts of the capital. In this sense, the study points out that More than 70% of the complaints are filed in the neighborhoods outside the M-30.
Thus, the study detects a relationship between places where fewer services are provided and districts with more complaints about cleanliness levels, something that affects people’s quality of life.
The highest number of complaints, in Latina
Latina is the district with the most cleaning complaints, with only 13% of its streets being swept every day, while Vallecas Bridgeis the fourth district with the most complaints (45% of its streets are only washed once a week). In Carabanchelwhere on more than half of its streets the bins are emptied once every two days, there have been more than 4,000 notices to municipal services for lack of cleaning.
In other districts such as Fuencarral-El Pardo Only 7% of its streets have maximum priority, while in Puente de Vallecas it barely reaches 4% of level 1 among its streets.
From Más Madrid they have recalled that in the 2023 Quality of Life and Satisfaction with public services Survey All southern districts rate the quality of life in their districts below the city average. As an example, residents ask for more investment, especially in the southern districts.
In detail, 14% of those surveyed responded that, first of all, they would allocate more resources to the state of the streets, highlighting Carabanchel, Latina, Villa de Vallecas and Puente de Vallecas, where the percentage is higher than the average.
Waste treatment infrastructure, also in the south
In the case of the location of waste treatment infrastructure, the majority of municipal waste management facilities are located in the southern districts.
Thus, in Villa de Vallecas there is the controlled deposit of inert waste from the Salmedina; the regenerating station of wastewater from the Topsail; he Valdemingómez Technology Park; ash deposit Valdemingomez.
Puente de Vallecas, for its part, houses the China wastewater regeneration station (infrastructure that also affects the districts of Usera and Villaverde). In this last district of Villaverde there is also the Butarque wastewater regeneration station.
In contrast, in the north of the city there are only the infrastructures of the wastewater regeneration station of Bars in San Blas-Canillejas and that of Valdebebas in Hortaleza-Barajas.
“Again, it is the southern and eastern districts of the city, as in other issues such as the unemployment rate or the level of average income, that are the worst off,” according to the Municipal Group of Más Madrid.
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