Emaya unveils new fleet to keep the city clean

EMAYA, the water board, which is also responsible for keeping Palma clean, has renewed its fleet with 79 new vehicles and 900 containers.
Mayor Joan Fageda and Maria Crespo, the president of Emaya, presented the new fleet of vehicles which will enable the council fulfil its selective collection of rubbish targets. Emaya now has 410 vehicles, after withdrawing 51 which are obsolute.
Emaya will also withdraw 1'500 obsolete containers and will return 132 plastic banks to the Council of Majorca.
The new countainers for selective collection will be distributed mainly in the suburbs.
The council has chosen to lease the vehicles rather than purchase them.
But the unions have complained about four rubbish collection lorries claiming that they are dangerous.
A union spokesman said that they had not been designed for the job and workers are in danger of being knocked down by them as they do not have any detectors.