We are FCC N28

FCC Medio Ambiente renews its commitment to the city of Valencia Valencia City Council has once again entrusted FCC Medio Ambiente with the street cleaning and urban waste collection and transport contract for Lot 2, which corresponds to the northern area of the city, for 525.89 million euro over a period of fifteen years. The company has been providing the service in the capital of the Tu - ria since 1957, and since 1994 it has provided the northern sec- tor, which includes the districts of Campanar, La Zaidia, Pla del Real, Camins del Grau, Algirós, Benima- clet, Rascanya, Benicalap, Poblats del Nord and de l’Oest, as well as the bridges along the old riverbed. The progress in the new phase en - trusted to FCC Medio Ambiente is both qualitative and quantitative: the contract has a larger staff of more than 550 people and almost 200 vehicles and machines in the fleet, thus reducing the emission of noise and polluting gases, in a major commitment to sustainabili- ty and as a sign of Valencia City Council’s commitment to the fight against climate change and the re- duction of the carbon footprint. Selective collection With regard to the collection ser- vice, in order to serve more than 365,000 inhabitants and collect around 140,000 tonnes of waste per year, numerous new features have been incorporated. Thus, the more than 2,000 container islands will have a container for each frac- tion and the new bicompartmenta- lised electric vehicles will allow to reinforce the simultaneous selec- tive collection with the minimum environmental impact. The collec - tion trucks will be equipped with an on-board system with cameras to report and validate the overflow of waste in the bins and to assess the degree of individual daily filling in each bin. For the selective collection of orga- nic matter, the installation of 1,600 sensors and locking systems and user identification equipment in the containers is planned, as well as fi - lling buoy sensors for sampling on the residual waste routes. The me - thodology for estimating the filling level of containers for the rest frac- tion developed by FCC Medio Am- biente in conjunction with the Sta- tistics and Operations Research Chair at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, which has enabled the locations and units to be optimi- sed by up to 18%, is particularly noteworthy. The strategic planning contemplated in the new contract is expected to achieve the waste separation and recycling objecti- ves set for 2030, which, together with the entire Zero and Eco fleet, aims to comply with the European Sustainability Agenda. With re- gard to the management of clean C O M M U N I T I E S 58 C O M M U N I T I E S