Ibiza’s garbage allows the Consell de Mallorca to reduce the waste bill by 10% in 2026

The Consell de Mallorca will reduce the municipal solid waste (MSW) tariff by 10% in 2026, a reduction that will be possible thanks to the transfer of waste from Ibiza and that will be retroactive from January 1.

• Ibiza prepares to send its garbage to Mallorca for at least 10 years

As reported by the Mallorcan island institution, the lowering of the rate is based on the validation of the Decree Law of urgent measures to accelerate strategic projects, approved last December 16 in the Balearic Parliament. This decree gives legal coverage to the pilot program for the transfer of waste from Ibiza to Mallorca, specifically the rejection fraction.

In addition, the regulation contemplates a subsidy from the Balearic Government to the Consell de Mallorca as the administration receiving waste, either directly or indirectly through the amortization of the investments made by the concessionary entity in the treatment plants of Mallorca. The total amount of this aid amounts to 50 million euros, spread over a period of 10 years.

Commitment fulfilled in Mallorca

The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, emphasized that this measure “fulfills the commitment to reduce the waste tariff by 10% during this legislature to protect the pockets of the citizens of Mallorca”.

Galmés stressed that, while in most of the State citizens will have to assume a generalized increase in the waste tax derived from the state law of 2022, in Mallorca not only has this increase been avoided, but “from next year the rate will be reduced by 10%”.

For his part, the second vice-president of the Consell and island councilor for the Environment, Rural Environment and Sports, Pedro Bestard, said that “for this government team it is essential to keep its word”, and added that the reduction “will be a relief for Mallorcans”.

The reduction of the bill in Mallorca comes thanks to the use of the island’s treatment facilities to manage waste generated in Ibiza, in a context of growing political and territorial controversy over the transfer of waste between islands and the real distribution of costs and benefits of the system.