The Water and Waste Consortium approves the 2027 waste tari…

The La Rioja Water and Waste Consortium has definitively set the public prices for the use of its treatment facilities for the year 2027: 97.10 euros per ton for the residual fraction treated at the La Rioja Ecoparque and 109.70 euros per ton at the Rioja Alta Transfer Station. The agreement was adopted by the body’s Governing Board on September 2, 2026, was definitively approved as no claims were registered, and is now published in the Official Gazette of La Rioja (Boletín Oficial de La Rioja) no. 219, of November 12, 2026, with reference BOR-A-20261112-III–4297 (pp. 19230-19231).

The modified regulation is the Fiscal Ordinance regulating the public price for the use of waste treatment facilities managed by the Consortium. The provisional approval occurred unanimously by the members present of the Governing Board, who constituted an absolute majority, based on the proposals presented by the Consortium’s Management. The file was open to the public for thirty business days, following an edict on the Consortium’s Notice Board and publication in the BOR no. 178, of September 16, 2026. As no allegations were presented, the rates were definitively approved in accordance with article 70.2 of Law 7/1985, of April 2, and the agreement appears signed in Logroño on November 5, 2026, by the manager José María Infante Olarte.

The Ecoparque, reference facility for the residual fraction

The La Rioja Urban Waste Classification, Recycling and Recovery Plant concentrates the highest number of rates in the new schedule, applicable per treated ton:

Municipal collection residual fraction: 97.10 euros/t.
Mixed bulky waste without mattresses: 188.60 euros/t.
Bulky waste with a minority presence of mattresses: 261.40 euros/t.
Mattresses or bulky waste with a majority presence of mattresses: 333.10 euros/t.
Municipal selective collection organic fraction: 46.40 euros/t.

Rioja Alta and plant waste

At the Rioja Alta Transfer Station, a single rate is set: 109.70 euros per ton of municipal collection residual fraction waste destined for treatment at the Ecoparque. For plant waste, the Ecoparque applies 43.40 euros per ton for gardening waste without other materials, 14.50 euros for unshredded pruning, and 0.00 euros for shredded pruning with a maximum size of 10 centimeters. Waste from electrical and electronic equipment without other materials is also set at 0.00 euros per ton.

Industrial mattresses: up to 405.70 euros per ton

Commercial or industrial waste assimilable to the residual fraction admitted for treatment is charged at 134.40 euros per ton; that assimilable to organic waste, at 56.40 euros; and that assimilable to bulky waste without mattresses, at 224.70 euros. The highest amount in the table corresponds to commercial or industrial mattress waste, set at 405.70 euros per ton.

Treatment Plants: no changes

The agreement maintains the current rate for the use of Wastewater Treatment Plants for the treatment of water discharged in tankers: a fixed amount of 56.77 euros per tanker and 10.94 euros per cubic meter when the chemical oxygen demand (COD) is less than 1,000 mg/l. Above that threshold, the formula 10.94 (1+0.3((COD-1000)/1000)) is applied, and discharges from public service facilities of consortium entities receive a 35% reduction.

Deadlines and appeals

The rates come into effect for the 2027 fiscal year and are mandatory for those using the facilities, mostly consortium local entities. An administrative appeal may be filed against the agreement before the Administrative Litigation section of the Court of First Instance of Logroño within two months starting from the day following this publication.

The new tariff table passes on to the consortium city councils, and therefore to the final service bill, the cost of treating each fraction: the difference between correctly depositing organic waste (46.40 euros per ton) and delivering bulky waste with mattresses (up to 333.10) marks the economic effort that the ordinance aims to direct toward selective collection. The most visible price increase is found in mattresses of commercial and industrial origin, which now cost 405.70 euros per treated ton.

Source: Official Gazette of La Rioja, no. 219, November 12, 2026, section III (Other provisions and acts), pp. 19230-19231 (official reference: BOR-A-20261112-III–4297).