VEHICLES Palma by night EMAYA’s side loader waste collection service By TIMOTHY BYRNE
EACH year, more than eight million tourists visit the beautiful Spanish island of Mallorca for a week or two of sun and fun. This is a dramatic boost to the island’s one million residents – 450,000 of whom live in the island’s capital city, Palma – and, of course, the amount of waste they make.
Waste collection is therefore a very important task which EMAYA, the public company of the municipality of Palma, takes very seriously.
In recent years, EMAYA has invested heavily in expanding its side loading waste collection system in lieu of the traditional rear loading one. These investments have provided the city with a more efficient, hygienic and sustainable waste collection system and helped to reduce labour costs. The side loader collection system has also helped in providing route coordinates for the future planning of waste collection rounds. This helps EMAYA in planning the most productive routes possible.
EMAYA collects waste 24 hours a day, seven days a week across Palma. There are three waste collection shifts: morning, afternoon and night. The night shift starts at 11pm and lasts for seven hours. During this time, EMAYA’S trucks concentrate on collecting the residual waste fraction along the main streets of the city, which
A CNG powered Iveco Stralis AD 360 horse power 6x2 rear steer 26 tonne chassis fitted with a 21m3 Mazzocchia LAT B side loading waste collection equipment.
would be impractical during the daytime due to traffic congestion.
EMAYA’s staff makes sure that each
communal collection point is left clean and tidy. This helps to keep the local city environment clean.
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EMAYA has also recently invested in a new fleet of CNG powered vehicles. These are Iveco Stralis AD 360 horse power 6x2 rear steer 26 tonne chassis, fitted with either OMB’S heavy duty 21m3 CMPL7 ETSA, or Mazzocchia’s 21m3 LAT B side loading waste collection equipment. The use of CNG powered vehicles is the future of EMAYA with a CNG refuelling station constructed at its Son Pacs vehicle park.
To ease driver fatigue, all of the new vehicles feature the Allison 3000 series automatic transmission. This helps in reducing maintenance costs in the stop- and-start work of waste collection. 11 of EMAYA’S new Iveco/OMB/ Mazzocchia side loading vehicles are operated during the night. These vehicles empty containers with a capacity of 3200 litres, which is the standard size
for Palma for the deposit of the residual waste fraction. The containers are placed in communal collection points along the street. Either a single container is provided or several where large volumes of waste are produced.
A smaller vehicle of 3.5 tonnes with high sides, complete with rear lift and manned by a driver, collects the loose debris deposited on the ground at communal collection points. EMAYA’s staff makes sure that each communal collection point is left clean and tidy. This helps to keep the local city environment clean.
All of EMAYA’S side loading waste collection trucks collect three loads of waste a night. The first two loads average a payload of 9.5 tonnes with the last load averaging 7.5 tonnes. It is evident from these weights that EMAYA have made the right decision in using side loader collection to manage the large volumes of waste produced.
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