€41m extra: Mallorca group targets Tirme waste deal

A Mallorca campaign group is calling for waste shipments from Eivissa to Mallorca to stop and for a further €41 million not to be paid to Tirme. The demand was made in Palma on 14 September 2026 by the Citizens’ Platform Against Waste Imports. It says the waste deal has become a lucrative arrangement for the company behind the Son Reus waste-burning plant.

The group says the Balearic Government would have had to pay €50 million to the Consell de Mallorca over 10 years to make the imports work. It says the island council would then have paid Tirme €103 million over three years.

Reports cited in payment claims

The platform bases its allegations on a financial oversight report from the Consell de Mallorca. It says the report puts the concession holder’s profitability at 77% and identifies matters that could amount to misuse of public funds.

It also points to the Balearic Audit Office, the Sindicatura de Comptes. According to the group, the payments were not included in the 2023 subsidy plan, had no legal framework or justification, and came without guarantees for advance payments. It says they were not an economic rebalancing of the contract.

Call to halt Eivissa shipments

The platform says Son Reus needs waste from beyond Mallorca because the island recycles more and produces less waste left after recycling. It says Tirme has found the required tonnage at the Can la Putxa landfill in Eivissa.

It warns that Mallorca has become the Balearics’ dumping ground. The group also says a charge that was meant to fall has still not been approved for either 2025 or 2026.

It wants the transfers halted, the extra €41 million withheld and the method used to set charges reviewed. In its place, it proposes less waste, reuse through deposit-and-return schemes, door-to-door collections including organic waste, and a local recycling industry.

Topics: Environment · Politics

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com