Residents of s'Arenal and urbanisations in Llucmajor report the accumulation of rubbish in the streets, with foul smells and overflowing bins. The waste collection workers have also expressed their dissatisfaction.
Summer in Llucmajor not only brings tourists and sunshine but also a problem that grows day by day: rubbish accumulates in the streets of s'Arenal and the urbanisations. Residents are fed up with seeing full bins and piles of waste bags around them, while the foul smells become unbearable.
In Son Verí Nou, at sunset, the scene is desolate. Rubbish has taken over the bins and their surroundings, and residents claim they have run out of patience. Anger towards the municipal waste management is widespread.
Workers also speak out
The very employees of the waste collection service have wanted to make their position clear. Through a statement, they expressed that they share the residents' dissatisfaction and that they themselves suffer the consequences of a service that, they claim, has been plagued by organisational deficiencies for some time.
“The staff fulfil their work and their commitment to provide an essential service. The responsibility for properly organising the human and material resources lies with the contracting company,” the workers state in their note. They emphasise that the operators are not the problem, but those who live with this situation daily.
The employees understand that the Council must take action when the service is not provided adequately, but they ask that the consequences be directed at the true responsible parties for the management of the contract, not towards them.
The Council seeks solutions
The Llucmajor Council has expressed its deep dissatisfaction with the situation and attributes the deficiencies to the failure of the contracting company. Despite the meetings held and the commitments made to reinforce resources, the situation has not improved.
Therefore, the Council has initiated contacts with other companies to partially take over the services that are not being provided. Furthermore, it emphasises that it is up to date with payments and that there is no municipal debt that justifies the deterioration of the service.
Meanwhile, residents of Llucmajor continue to endure rubbish in the streets. Some nearby bars have had to resort to incense sticks to mitigate the smells. The question everyone is asking is when normality will return.
For now, the Council is working to restore the service as soon as possible, but the patience of the residents is running thin. Indeed, in the middle of the peak season, the image that Llucmajor presents is far from the idyllic Mallorca that is promoted.
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