The people of Madrid will pay the new garbage rate which will come into force in 2024 based on two variables: the cadastral value of each property and the waste generated by each neighborhood. The amount of waste produced in the capital has been reduced by 40,788 tons since 2019. It is the objective pursued by state law, to reduce both the waste generated and its impact on the environment. Although this rate will be applied in the 131 neighborhoods of Madrid and in the absence of knowing how much waste they generate, the City hall provides information on how much waste each district generates. In 2023, municipal services collected 1,138,972 tons.
The waste that is generated the most is that of the rest fraction, 549,488 tons. Madrid residents have thrown more than 260,000 tons of garbage into the organic containerwhile the yellow container has received 126,384 t of packaging. In 2023, 85,781 t of paper and cardboard were thrown away and 62,532 t of glass. During 2024, until the month of June, the city has generated 593,939 tons, according to the City Council’s Transparency Portal.
Due to the activity it hosts, although it is not the one with the most inhabitants, the Center district It always occupies first place in waste generation. Fuencarral-El Pardo and Carabanchel They exchange second and third place on the podium depending on the year. In 2023, Carabanchel generated 80,582 tons, while in Fuencarral it was 81,052. Bridge of Vallecaswith 72,790; Latinwith 69,569; Linear Citywith 65,281 and Villa de Vallecas, with 57,930 are the following.
The district of Saint Blaise-Canillejas is the one that has reduced its waste the most between 2019 and 2023. While 5 years ago it yielded 59,968 tons, in 2023 there have been 51,356. This has caused it to go from being the eighth district that generated the most waste to being in twelfth place. The district with the fewest inhabitants in Madrid, Decksis the one that produces the least garbage: 21,510 tons. They follow him Moratalaz, Vicalvaro and Withdrawal.
Valdemingómez recycles 53% of waste
The Technology Park of Valdemingomez It treats more than one million tons of domestic and municipal waste every year. The general director of the park, María José Delgado, explains that first they are classified to try to recover materials and recycle them; If it is organic matter, fertilizers are generated and with those that have not been able to be recycled, what is done is to generate energy. It is done in two ways: “From organic matter we manufacture biogas that is transformed into biomethane and we also generate electricity,” says Delgado. Currently, the level of recycling in the capital is 53%, adding municipal waste with private waste.
And who would have thought that the brown bag that is thrown into the container could end up igniting our refrigerator… The biomethane created in Valdemingómez, “equivalent to natural gas”, annually generates more than 150,000 megawatts that it serves, María José gives as an example, to supply “more than 50,000 homes or to move 500 buses from the EMT“In addition, through the incineration of waste that has not been able to be recycled, “Electricity is generated that could supply 70,000 homes.”
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Precisely one of the challenges that the City Council includes in the draft Strategy for the Prevention and Management of Domestic and Commercial Waste in the City of Madrid – 2030 is recycling. Among the waste that is collected in the rest fraction, there is a very important part that should be collected in other fractions that already have a specific separate collection planned, such as organic matter, packaging waste of all types of material, paper, cardboard. or textile, among others. They come to assume about 80% of the waste that appears in the rest fraction.
The fundamental objective of this strategy, which has not yet been approved, is to “put in place all the instruments that will allow us to comply with the recycling targets of 65% in 2035 and the reduction of waste disposal by 10%,” says the person in charge of Valdemingómez. Currently, 53% of the waste is recycled and 32% is dumped. This figure includes both the waste collected by the City Council and the that are managed privately, that is, the waste that, for example, supermarkets and shopping centers take to private managers.
The law 7/2022, of April 8, on waste and contaminated soils for a circular economy obliges city councils to establish a “specific, differentiated and non-deficit” rate that allows the implementation of payment systems for waste generation. own Executive proposed different payment systems per generation. The “elementary”, with reductions on a single fee based on certain behaviors such as contributions to clean points or adherence to voluntary home composting programs. Also the “advanced” one with a basic fee and another individualized variable depending on the behavior of each person, for example in cases of door-to-door service provision or with smart containers.
And the “medium”, with a basic fee and another variable depending on the behavior detected according to the areas of the municipality. This is what the City Council of the capital has chosen: there will be a fixed cost of 81% according to the cadastral value of each property and the remaining 19% will be paid based on each neighborhood and the waste it generates.
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