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Today, in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia, we are in Llinars del Vallès, a town in the region of Vallès Oriental, where waste is collected house by house.
This collection system is called “door to door”. It has demonstrated greater acceptance and a better number of correctly recycled waste, especially in towns.
This is possible thanks to the fact that the municipalities supply the appropriate number of containers for each house. In addition to delivering the containers, they are also in charge of providing prior pedagogy and adapting it to the realities of each neighborhood and, above all, giving the times when the containers must be left on the street.
Once the system is implemented and the containers are in place, all that remains is for a garbage truck to go from house to house and empty the mini containers.
Once the theory has been explained a little, this system (like many things) is not without controversy. There are people who may complain that there are towns that have to leave garbage bags directly on the street, since the City Council does not give them a bucket to deposit the waste.
Other people, however, complain that there are not enough collection days for organic waste, especially with the summer heat.
On the other hand, there are people who argue that it is much more convenient, since they do not have to go throw out the garbage a few streets away.
Without a doubt, this system that spread to some parts of Barcelona and that, for example, is being considered to be implemented in towns like Sant Celoni, in the first months of implementation requires certainty of many changes and knowing how to listen to the citizens a lot in order to thus introduce improvements and ensure that people do not have arguments against not recycling.
