It is neither a place for practising adventure tourism, nor leisure activities to share with the family. An eco-park is a space where home waste which cannot be put into traditional containers is selectively classified.
Garbage like oils, junk, radiographies, light bulbs, ink cartridges, electrical appliances, mobile phones, batteries, paints and debris are deposited in eco-parks. There are also “green spots” for the collection of gardening waste, as well a free of charge door-to-door service for collecting old furniture.
To date, the Spanish government has called for 27 tenders to build eco-parks all over the country. This project aims at satisfying the need to build places where citizens can deposit waste in an organized, selective and secure way, and where residues can be collected by authorized staff in order to be reutilized or eliminated in a controlled way.
An eco-park has about 1,200 m2 , it includes a room for educating and lecturing on environmental issues, leisure areas for disabled people, locker rooms, a control booth and a room for storing residues temporarily, as well as a third building for special residues. It also has garden areas, and two more areas: one for big objects (woods, furniture, electrical appliances - white or brown), and another one for conventional residues which cannot be deposited in street containers.
None of these residues are of industrial origin because these “green spots” are thought for citizens’ use. Since eco-parks or “green spots” have rooms for educating students, citizens and housewives, they have a twofold function: a place for collecting garbage and a training space to accomplish a sustainable development.
