Clean points island network (Deixalleries)

What is a collection centre?

A clean point are facilities where waste is received and transferred, where services are provided to the local inhabitants and which has the following objectives:

• Favour the reuse, recycling and recovery of waste.
• Facilitate the management of waste for which there is no clearly defined management.
• Provide an outlet to waste which the user is not sure what to do with.
• Educate and raise awareness of the public about the need to correctly manage waste.

These are supervised and closed facilities with various containers where selective waste can be deposited and with a warehouse for depositing domestic waste classed as dangerous (fluorescents, paint, solvents, mineral oil, batteries, etc.).

Who can use the clean points?

Any resident, visitor, or enterprise may use the clean points, provided they respect their rules of use and provided the material to be deposited is admissible and does not exceed the capacity of the facilities.

What is done with the material that is collected?

Thanks to the functioning of these clean points, all this material that is collected has received the best environmentally possible treatment:

• Whenever possible, the collected material is reused, such as the case of furniture or electrical appliances.
• When this is not possible, the recycling and recovery of the waste is favoured, for example, scrap, vegetable oil, pruning and garden waste, paper-cardboard, glass, packs, etc. which are used to obtain new raw materials.
• Lastly, and as a final option (when the reuse and recycling is not possible), any waste which cannot be used is taken to the landfill at Ca Na Putxa for controlled elimination.
• Dangerous waste is sent to plants for decontamination and use of the materials, if possible.

For further information, please consult the website www.deixallerieseivissa.com

Collection of domestic cooking oil

How does the domestic cooking oil collection work?

• Deposit the used cooking oil in a used bottle
• Replace the cap on the bottle and take the container to the cooking oil container
• Deposit the full bottle, complete with its cap, inside the oil collection container
• Go back to point 1 for a new bottle

What oil can be collected?

• Oil for frying
• Oil for canned food
• Other vegetable oil
• WARNING: Do not deposit engine oil!

Where is used oil picked up?

It may be deposited in the containers for oil located in the street or else at the Deixallerias

Did you know that:

• 1 litre of oil may pollute more than 3000 litres of water?
• It causes problems to the pipes and sewers?
• It provokes a poor functioning of the waste water treatment plants?

Advantages of the selective collection of cooking oil

• It avoids producing waste
• It takes advantage of a product which can be recovered
• It reduces the consumption of natural resources in the production of fuel, animal food, soap or industrial products.

What is done with the oil that is collected?

• Biodiesel
• Animal food
• Soap and industrial products

Hotels, bars and restaurants

Enterprises dedicated to collecting cooking oil offer a direct pick-up service from big producers.