Seville City Hall plans to collect nearly seven million kilos of bitter oranges until the end of February as part of the 2025-2026 municipal collection campaign, which takes place throughout the city and affects more than 52,000 orange trees … suitable for collection.
In a press release, the delegate for Parks and Gardens, Evelia Rinconexplained that The campaign started more than two weeks ago according to technical criteria of fruit ripening, starting with the districts of Este-Alcosa-Torreblanca, Cerro-Amate and Casco Antiguo.
“The collection will gradually be extended to the rest of the neighborhoods over the coming days and weeks, as the orange arrives optimal degree of maturationbecause in certain neighborhoods, it is still too green,” he underlined.
As the Consistory pointed out, this approach allows avoid damaging tree branches and ensure safer and more efficient collection. In addition, as in previous campaigns, priority will be given to streets included in the routes of the Three Kings Parade, as well as to areas with the highest pedestrian and road traffic.
For minimize inconvenience for citizensthe municipal system plans to carry out night collections at points with a high density of daytime traffic, particularly on major roads and traffic routes.
Rincón also indicated that estimates point to a campaign with a high fruit loadboth in quantity and caliber, which could place the collection at around seven million kilos throughout the city.
For reasons of job security, No collection work will be carried out during rainy events nor in orange trees from 3.5 meters in height.
The campaign has a budget greater than 500,000 euros and mobilizes more than a hundred workers, including staff from the Parks and Gardens Service and award-winning companies responsible for the conservation and maintenance of Seville’s trees and green spaces.
Lipasam’s support in the campaign
Alongside the Parks and Gardens Service, the Seville City Council, through Lipasam, has launched a special reinforcement plan for clearing brush, removing oranges that have fallen to the ground and strengthening selective waste collection, which includes the recruitment of 121 workers.
Of this total, 57 people are assigned to clearing brush, 45 to removing oranges from the ground and 19 to strengthening selective collection, acting in all neighborhoods of the city.
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