Alicante town trades rubbish lorries for horses and carts
Thursday, July 24, 2014 @ 5:21 PM
A TOWN in eastern Spain has swapped the dust cart for a horse and cart to save money.
Monforte del Cid (Alicante province) says it will save 200,000 euros a decade – half its costs – by using four-legged transport for collecting rubbish from bins around the streets.
A first for Spain, horses and carts for refuse collection have been introduced already in 80 towns and villages in France and Belgium.
As well as ensuring that horses bred for driving do not diminish in population – given that with motorised transport, they are mainly only reproduced for showing or driving competitions – the cost of keeping a horse, net of livery, is vastly lower than that of running a refuse lorry.
Read more at thinkSPAIN.com