The municipality of Totana counted during the year 2017 the collection of more than 12,500 tons of urban solid waste of organic origin, more specifically a total of 12,541,940 kilograms of garbage in the containers distributed on public roads.
According to the annual report prepared by the Department of the Environment that collects the figures for collection of household waste on public roads, in addition, 652,110 kilograms of glass, 379,304 of paper-cardboard, 227,800 of containers and 59,876 of used clothing were collected and recyclable.
In the same study it is reported that 67,700 kilograms of waste were collected from the road cleaning service, 94,827 carton-door service in commercial establishments and catering and 4,290 liters of cooking oils.
The months in which there is a greater collection of solid urban waste is in summer and autumn, so that the month in which more light containers were collected (20,760 kilograms) was in June;
paper-cardboard in the containers of public roads (37,984) in September;
paper-cardboard in door-to-door service (8,633) in November and paper-cardboard in the municipal eco-park (480) in September.
At present, Totana has a total of 108 containers of 3,000 liters of paper-cardboard and 102 of light containers distributed by the urban case and the districts.
