Lleida opens public information period to decommission 3,490 waste service containers

The Lleida City Council has opened a public information period of 20 business days to process the decommissioning of 3,490 containers that until now were available to the concessionaire company of the municipal street cleaning service, waste collection, and management of the city’s recycling centers. The announcement, signed by Mayor Fèlix Larrosa i Piqué, is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida no. 214, dated November 9, 2026, with the official reference BOP-2026_0_214_9432 and edict number 9432, and corresponds to file PAT 167_2026.

The file is based on the report issued on November 2, 2026, by the Head of the Environment Section and the Head of the Urban Services Service, which lists the containers that had provided service to the concessionaire and which are now proposed to be removed from the assignment to the municipal public service. The instruction is handled by the Lleida City Council through its Heritage department, which is the body where the procedure documentation can be consulted.

A file instructed from Heritage

The published text does not specify the final destination of the containers nor any economic valuation of the elements, aspects that do not appear in the announcement. What it does establish is the procedural framework: the decommissioning exclusively affects the containers that had been available to the service concessionaire company, not the rest of the municipal equipment.

The publication in the gazette opens the formal channel so that any interested person or entity may know the scope of the measure before it is consolidated. The file remains deposited at the municipal headquarters and is also accessible electronically.

3,490 containers, divided by typology

The detail by container type and capacity included in the announcement is as follows:

• Side loader residual 3,200 liters: 665 units
• Side loader paper 3,200 liters: 407 units
• Side loader packaging 3,200 liters: 384 units
• Side loader glass 2,200 liters: 412 units
• Side loader organic 2,200 liters: 0 units
• Rear loader organic 350 liters: 731 units
• Rear loader residual 1,100 liters: 427 units
• Easy paper 2,700 liters: 135 units
• Easy packaging 2,700 liters: 107 units
• Easy glass 2,700 liters: 97 units
• Easy underground paper 2,700 liters: 38 units
• Easy underground packaging 2,700 liters: 38 units
• Easy underground glass 2,700 liters: 49 units

The highest figure corresponds to the 350-liter organic rear loader containers, with 731 units, followed by the 3,200-liter residual side loaders (665) and the 1,100-liter residual rear loaders (427). The underground containers of lower capacities—the “Easy underground” series of 2,700 liters—total 125 units among paper, packaging, and glass.

Twenty business days to present allegations

During the public information period, interested parties may submit claims and allegations regarding the file. The consultation conditions are:

• Deadline: 20 business days from publication
• Location: Heritage Department of the Lleida City Council, Pl. Paeria, 11, Pal·las building, 1st floor
• Information telephone: 973 700 340
• Email: patrimoni@paeria.cat
• Prior appointment: mandatory to consult the file
• Electronic means: e-TAULER - Lleida City Council (seu.cat)

The news directly affects the residents and entities of the city that use the collection service, but also the operators and providers in the waste sector, for whom this period is the only window to question or clarify the decommissioning before the file is closed. With 3,490 units at stake, this is a considerable volume operation regarding the municipal container park, the first formal step for these elements to cease being linked to the concessioned service.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida, no. 214, November 9, 2026, Local Administration - City Councils, p. 1 (official reference: BOP-2026_0_214_9432).