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• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

The San Markos Supramunicipal Association currently provides door-to-door collection at schools and for the public sector
in the municipality, along with collecting paper-cardboard from shops and travel agencies and, finally, glass from hotel
establishments.
Errenteria Local Council will revise and supplement the organisation of the current collection model for major
producers (service sector), with an emphasis on encouraging separate collection, by means of customised collection
arranged with those major waste generators.
The establishments may sign up to the new system on a voluntary basis, and will need to store the waste generated separately
in containers or bags, in an allocated protected space within their business premises. Once the recipient is full and as required
by the establishment, the latter will contact the management company for its on-demand collection.
The aim is thus to facilitate user-friendly separate collection for the major generators. This is expected to lead to
better use of the waste generated by those stakeholders: such as the food thrown away by restaurants, hotels, bars,
schools, markets, shops, public buildings, etc., along with the waste paper and cardboard, glass, light packaging and oil.
As an initial step, a municipal inventory will be conducted of establishments likely to be major waste generators, they will be
located and mapped. Contact will then be made with the establishments to offer them the opportunity to sign up for the new collection
system.
According to the separate collection results obtained with the major generators after deploying the new system, the
acceptance of the measures will be assessed to consider widespread implementation of the model on a non-voluntary basis in the future,
by means of a municipal ordinance.

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• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

In residential buildings, refurbish the outside façade, replacing the current carpentry and fitting insulation.

• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

In the Lekuona building, a biomass boiler will be installed for the heat input of the facilities. Currently, the
building is being constructed, but it will be home to activities that are currently held in other
buildings and they will be moved to the Lekuona building once it is finished.

• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Replacing lamps by LED lights. The lights of the most powerful electric boards will be replaced every year. Estimate of two electric boards per year.

• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Replacing the single glazing windows and with obsolete carpentry with double glazing windows and more efficient carpentry.

• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Three quarters of the waste generated are currently mass collected in Renteria and sent to the landfill. Even though
the landfill for this municipality and surrounding ones was located nearby in the past, since 2009, the waste has been transported to
different landfills in Gipuzkoa: Beasain, Azpeitia and Zarautz. This reflects the problem regarding waste in the zone, which
requires a change in management to bring the amount of waste generated down and increase the separate collection.
Therefore, numerous municipalities have introduced different types of waste management. Special mention must be made of door-to-door and the fifth container among
the waste measures being implemented in the municipalities of Gipuzkoa.
In this context, Renteria wishes to build on the efforts that other municipalities are making in this regard and it will therefore study
the possible introduction of the fifth container. This deployment will be carried out progressively, in tandem with
awareness-raising campaigns that will be organised to cut waste generation and to encourage separate collection and recycling.
This change in management is aimed at achieving at least the targets set in the Gipuzkoa Integral Waste
Management Plan. Only 47% of the municipality's paper and cardboard, 82% of the glass and 33% of the plast are currently recycled. Composting
barely accounts for 1%. This measure is aimed at recycling 75% of paper, 88% of glass, 90% of plastics and 30%
of organic matter.
Furthermore, containers for organic matter will be installed in January 2014, which will serve 5,000 of the municipality's 17,000
households. More containers will be progressively installed and the service, which will be voluntary, extended.

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• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

In Errenteria, the authorities have been working for many years on ensuring that the mobility needs of the inhabitants are covered by sustainability
criteria. Studies have therefore been conducted (including the
Errenteria Sustainability Survey), to study and discover the town's situation in this regard, and plans prepared (including the
Supramunicipal and Local Action Plan for Sustainable Development or the Errenteria Cycling Master Plan), to implement measures
and schemes that help to achieve that objective. There is also the Cycling Plan that is currently being
prepared.
Therefore, there is a proliferation of documents with a sole objective that means that a Mobility Plan
needs to be developed that includes all the work carried out regarding sustainable mobility. This will also be a good
strategy to cut GHG emissions to be designed, taking into account the contribution of the mobility sector to the overall calculation of the municipality's
GHG emissions, which account for around 50% of the total emissions.

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• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Pursuant to the Errenteria sustainability studies, the losses in the distribution network as the percentage of the total
water demand have fallen during recent years, and dropped by around 2% between 2007 and 2011. Even though
fluctuations in the losses were recorded during the period, no trend to cut them were observed. The average water
demand in the peak season is 3,160,619 m3/year, while the demand in the low seasons is 2,521,061 m3/year. Therefore, with a difference between
peak and low season of 639,558 m3 a year on average, the losses of the system stand at 27%.
That uncontrolled consumption can be due to leaks and burst water mains in the supply network, the ageing of the system, problems
of corrosion, problems with meter readings, consumer fraud, etc. Therefore, the Local Council will invest
in maintaining the network, campaigns to detect leaks, inspections, controlling the impact of public works on the network or
in installing meters in municipal buildings with the goal, among others, of cutting uncontrolled consumption
by 30%.

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• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

The Añarbe public woodland (1,672 ha) is under pressure from different spheres and the vast majority of the
forestry land-use involves quick growing conifers and deciduous exotic species. 73% of the
surface area of the municipal district occupied by exotic forestry plantations is the property of Errenteria Local Council itself.
However, in recent years, the local council has embarked on an intense campaign to conserve the biodiversity, recover the
native species, progressively eliminate the commercial plantations, combat invasive species and undertake
restoration projects.
In order to improve the ecological functionality of Añarbe, the local council will review and modify the zoning of the
Aiako Harria Natural Park, pursuant to the Park's PORN (Natural Resources Pan), and will create a Reserve Zone in 910 ha of woodland and restoration
zones to protect the oak and beech groves. The outcome will thus be that the forested area will consist of
mature and not fragmented woodland. This will improve the ecological connectivity and the conservation status of the
natural habits, with the advantage of restoring the ecological functionality of the River Oiartzun. It will also work on an agreement with
Donostia-San Sebastián City Council so that the active conservation zones of the Oberan-Errekabeltz forests are included in the new
reserve zone created.
This measure is expected to notably improve the biological values, along with the capacity to provide environmental
services for those ecosystems, such as retention of soils, sediments and organic matter from the supply basin of the
Añarbe reservoir and, particularly, those that imply the absorption of atmospheric CO2 and social and economic benefits.
Improving the management in this area could make it easier to be include in some conservation funding system, such as
payments for environmental services or mechanisms to avoid deforestation, such as the programme on
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), and the possibility of using it on a local scale will be studied.

• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Forestry is a very widespread activity in the Basque Country. The landscape impact is important, as
generally the plantations consists of exotic species with little ecological value. The impact also includes the matarrasa or clear cuts technique,
using heavy machinery both for felling and removing the timber, as the main exploitation method. Creating
tracks for the machinery causes soil erosion, compacting and loss of organic matter.
In Errenteria, there are tree plantations with exotic trees, such as the Monterrey pine, in public woodland.
Therefore, the Local Council will embark on a Restoration Plan that enables the replacement of degraded forests and exotic species
plantations, which contribute fewer ecosystemic services, by leafy native species of the Atlantic forest.
This action seeks to recover the integrity of the degraded ecosystems and achieve better ecological functionality in the
area where the intervention takes place. This process will help to mitigate climate change and improve the landscape around Errenteria.
In order to implement this action, Errenteria Local Council will identify the restoration and conservation priorities of the plantation
zones, establishing a management plan for the current plantations and preventing the extraction of timber once the
forestry land-use has finished.
On the other hand, a Restoration Plan will be set up which will enable the structural complexity of the Atlantic forest to be addressed. Therefore,
the council will have the support of Gipuzkoa Provincial Council in the management of the restored area.
The species to be used will mainly be oak and beech, along with birch, ash or hawthorn, among others, which are native to the
environment. The restoration work will be mainly manual, and the trees planted in the land in a non-
geometrical way.