Yaiza receives five bids for its new waste collection service: a 36-million contract

Yaiza council has five bids on the table for its new household waste collection and transport service. The deadline for submissions closed on Monday 10 August, and the technical assessment phase now begins.

The proposed contract is one of the largest the council has ever put out to tender: ten years, worth around 36 million euros. It covers collection and transport to the island landfill, as well as the supply, cleaning and maintenance of the bins themselves.

What changes

The specification widens the scope of the service considerably. It now takes in organic waste, residual waste, household cooking oil, bulky items, electrical appliances and garden prunings.

The real novelty is the mobile recycling points: facilities that will not stay in one fixed location but rotate between the municipality's villages. It answers a practical problem in Yaiza, where settlements sit far apart and anyone without a car struggles to reach a fixed site.

The winning company also commits to removing construction and demolition waste abandoned in public spaces — the kind that builds up into fly-tips along the roadside.

Why now

Mayor Óscar Noda said the aim of the new tender is to improve collection across every village in the municipality, expanding and optimising the service with measures that are «far more efficient and adapted to the growth of the resident and tourist population».

Cleaning councillor Rubén Arca highlighted the wider range of waste categories covered and the arrival of the mobile recycling points.

Yaiza is one of the island's municipalities where the gap between registered population and actual presence is felt most sharply, given the tourist weight of Playa Blanca. A service sized for residents alone comes under strain in high season — which is the reasoning behind rebuilding the contract from scratch rather than extending the existing one.