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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 7:32pm

Alicia 11

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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 7:32pm

Matthew wrote on Sun Feb 21, 2021 2:03pm:
I post as best I can. I don't need a lesson on how to post. If you have to be informed that dumping mattresses in a public place is illegal there is not point in communicating with you. Most would have learnt this from around age 5.
Look at this in a different way. I probably saved you a fine from the Policía Local and from a lot of talk from your neighbours....

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Matthew the reason that they have a bulk collection is just exactly to stop the illegal dumping of any furniture including mattresses many of which we found in the Rambla when we lived in Arboleas. So the advice is check when they collect and place by the bins the night before.

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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:18am

GLYNNSON

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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:18am

Alicia 11 wrote on Sun Feb 21, 2021 7:32pm:
Matthew the reason that they have a bulk collection is just exactly to stop the illegal dumping of any furniture including mattresses many of which we found in the Rambla when we lived in Arboleas. So the advice is check when they collect and place by the bins the night before.

Thankyou Alicia. I have checked and it is quite acceptable to do as you suggested.

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:24am

GLYNNSON

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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:24am

psy1967 wrote on Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:25pm:
I think you may have missed the point, Matthew. The ayuntamiento set a date once or twice a month when they ask you to leave large items of rubbish, including mattresses, next to the bins, and they go equipped to remove them. That isn't dumping, it is taking advantage of the service o...

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...ffered for the safe and ecologically sound disposal of waste. On Alicia's suggestion, Glynnson seems to be planning to check the date with his ayuntamiento so that he can do just that, so claiming to have saved him a fine from the Policia seems a little wide of the mark.

Thankyou psy1967, I'm glad to see you took the time to read and understand my question, unlike others. I have checked and it acceptable to do as Alicia suggested.

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:30am

Matthew

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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:30am

I was talking to some of my friends in Mojacar by phone over the weekend (including one Spaniard) and each informed me that it is illegal to leave used mattresses for collection by the local authority. Each said the local authority (for a quiet life) would dump the mattresses. But the bottom line message I'm getting is that it is illegal to dump used mattresses expecting the local authority to redump.

I could add the opinions of the people I spoke with, but I'll save you their comments.

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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:41pm

Alicia 11

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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:41pm

Matthew wrote on Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:30am:
I was talking to some of my friends in Mojacar by phone over the weekend (including one Spaniard) and each informed me that it is illegal to leave used mattresses for collection by the local authority. Each said the local authority (for a quiet life) would dump the mattresses. But the botto...

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...m line message I'm getting is that it is illegal to dump used mattresses expecting the local authority to redump.
I could add the opinions of the people I spoke with, but I'll save you their comments.

so the townhall's own web site stating that they will collect on the 2nd and 17th of each month bulk rubbish including Mattresses is not true then? better that they are collected and disposed of correctly than left anywhere with no thought to the environment.

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:55am

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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:55am

Matthew wrote on Sun Feb 21, 2021 2:03pm:
I post as best I can. I don't need a lesson on how to post. If you have to be informed that dumping mattresses in a public place is illegal there is not point in communicating with you. Most would have learnt this from around age 5.
Look at this in a different way. I probably saved you a fine from the Policía Local and from a lot of talk from your neighbours....

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Leaving the aesthetics aside and also their relative attractiveness as bedding material for rodents, technological advances enable many of the components of a mattress to be recovered so, in growing numbers of municipalities mattresses are now recyclable. As we move towards a circular economy and net-zero, more items will be made to be recyclable or re-usable.