This morning, the Governing Board of Calpe Town Council agreed to modify the Municipal Ordinance for the Protection of the Urban Environment with the aim of increasing penalties for illegal dumping to €3,000.
The urban sprawl of the municipality encourages uncontrolled dumping and makes it difficult to collect waste in an orderly manner. For this reason, the 2026 municipal budget includes two environmental wardens with the power to impose penalties to increase surveillance of any type of uncontrolled dumping, identifying the persons responsible and applying the corresponding penalty where appropriate.
Individuals can deposit pruning waste at the Punto Blanco, located on Avenida del País Valencià, while professionals in the sector must take pruning waste to an authorised landfill site. It is prohibited to dump this type of waste on public roads, plots of land or open spaces, whether publicly or privately owned.