The plenary of the island institution has agreed to allocate 13.5 million euros for the creation of the new rate of the organic fraction that will be subsidised at 100% and 5.4 million euros to regularize the rate of solid urban waste from 2024.

The plenary session of the Consell de Mallorca has approved with the votes in favour of the Popular Group and Vox, and the abstention of El Pi, an extraordinary credit modification of €19,119,217.32 to regularise Tirme’s waste treatment fees. The Socialist Group and Més per Mallorca voted against it.

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The Consell de Mallorca approves an extraordinary credit modification of 19 million euros to regularise waste treatment fees

Specifically, €13,501,920.13 is invested for the implementation of a new tariff for the treatment of the organic fraction of Municipal Collection (FORM), as established by the State Law 7/2022 of 8 April on waste and contaminated soils for a circular economy. In this way, the island institution aims to encourage the selective collection of the organic fraction and adapt to a more sustainable and efficient waste management model. The Minister of Finance, Rafel Bosch, stressed that ‘this new rate will be 100% subsidised by the Consell de Mallorca so that it does not affect the local councils or the Mallorcan people’.

On the other hand, €5,427,297.19 has been allocated to regularise the deficit of the last tariff cycle, corresponding to June 2023 to May 2024, as a result of the unforeseeable deviation of the real electricity revenues of the service concerning those initially estimated. In this regard, the Minister of Finance assured that ‘this new injection is due to the fluctuation in the price of energy, the Euribor each month and the CPI’.

During the debate, Councillor Bosch recalled that last year the Consell de Mallorca had to inject 43 million euros to freeze this year’s waste tariff, of which 11.4 million euros were destined ‘to regularise the last tariff approved by the previous left-wing Pact’. Lastly, Bosch stressed that ‘the government team continues to work to avoid raising the urban waste tariff for the year 2025’.