Althenia Sando’s street cleaning services include the removal of waste, dirt, and spontaneous vegetation from urban roads, as well as equipment and furnishings.
Street, pavement and road cleaning is carried out daily and on special occasions, such as periodic or occasional events when additional cleaning activities are required. There are also exceptional situations that require ad hoc clean-up measures, such as adverse weather events, such as snowfalls, Calima (Saharan dust), floods or falling trees and vegetation due to wind.
Althenia Sando uses mechanical, manual or mixed means to carry out these tasks, the most appropriate method always being determined by aspects such as the width of the streets, the amount of existing waste or the type of paving. The most common street cleaning systems are sweeping and sweeping, and sometimes it is necessary to use other methods and machinery, such as air blasting, suction or scrubbing In either case, the waste collected is subsequently integrated into municipal waste treatment circuits.
Sweeping removes dirt from the road surface through pressurised water jets that carry it to the nearest manholes. It can also be mechanised, manual, or both.
Vacuuming is a mechanised technique used to absorb and deposit in a tank incorporated in the machine all the waste that cannot be collected by manual sweeping, which is then emptied into the transporters that take it to controlled landfills and waste treatment plants.
Manual and mechanical means remove spontaneous vegetation and apply ecological herbicides with organic, environmentally friendly active ingredients. Althenia Sando also employs mulching in the services, using plant matter or other shredded material as a loose layer on top of the soil to protect and nourish it.
On the other hand, it is also necessary to carry out preventive treatments in cities in the face of common winter episodes, such as frosts. In this case, preventive measures include spreading ice-melting elements, such as salt, on roads and pavements.
