If you live in Oviedo, Bilbao or Gijón, you should be in luck: your city is one of the cleanest in Spain. If, on the other hand, you live in Alicante, Madrid or Alcalá de Henares, your streets are the dirtiest in Spain. That is, at least, what it concludes a study carried out by the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU)in which it is denounced that the cuts have caused urban cleaning to worsen in most cities in the last four years.
The organization has analyzed the quality of cleaning in 60 Spanish municipalities and warns that the evaluation of users has fallen in four years from an average of 58 points to 54. In addition, in 30% of the cities in the study, the residents They suspend the cleaning management of their City Hall.
With everything, the OCU reflects that there are big differences between cities and, especially, between the north (with the cleanest cities, according to the study, with exceptions such as Lugo) and the south (whose cities appear at the bottom of the list).
Once again, Oviedo repeats itself as the town where citizens are most satisfied with its cleanliness. They are followed by Bilbao, Gijón, Getxo and Vigo, with satisfaction above remarkable. At the opposite extreme are Jaén, Valencia, Alicante and especially Madrid and Alcalá de Henares as the cities worst valued by their neighbors in terms of cleanliness.
The organization points to Badajoz and Valencia as “heads and tails”. The city of Extremadura was the worst valued in the previous study. However, says the OCU, a change in the management of the service and the increase in the budget have made it the locality where the assessment has improved the most (25 points), surpassing the approved. Seville, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Soria, Vigo and Santa Cruz de Tenerife have also improved significantly.
On the contrary, the cities where cleanliness has worsened the most in the last 4 years have been Granada, Murcia, Madrid, Alicante, Elche and especially Valencia, which suffered the greatest drop of all the cities in the OCU study (20 points).
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The OCU emphasizes that it is the cities in which the municipal budget has been reduced where the valuation has fallen the most, in the case of Cuenca, Valencia and Zaragoza. On the contrary, an increase in budgets has increased user satisfaction, as in Gijón, Seville and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Despite this, the organization recognizes that spending more money does not guarantee a cleaner city. And he gives Madrid as an example, one of the countries that spend the most (78 euros per inhabitant per year) and is one of the dirtiest, while Oviedo (52 euros per inhabitant), Gijón (36 euros) and Pamplona (40 euros). They are in the top 10 of the cleanest.
For the preparation of the study, the OCU has consulted the town halls of all the provincial capitals and some large cities, on the budget, management and means that they allocate to cleaning the city.
On the other hand, it has carried out a survey of its members during the past month of February in which more than 5,825 users have participated, which has made it possible to evaluate the perception that residents have about cleanliness in their city. To analyze its evolution, the data have been compared with a similar study carried out in 2011.
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