Benitatxell to create a Hiking
route and recreation area on
Tossal Gros Unemployment up in Spain as
economy sheds 203,000 jobs in
August
Tossal Gros is an old landfill in
Benitatxell. Currently, it has degraded
by uncontrolled waste dumping in
recent years. August is traditionally a slow month
for the Spanish labour market, as
many summer jobs get axed in the
hospitality and retail sectors.
Now the Town Hall plans to restore the
area with the creation of a recreational
forested area and a hiking route. This year has been worse than others,
released figures show.
It will have a subsidy of 20,000 euros
from the Diputación de Alicante to
achieve this. The clearing of the plot
is also planned with the elimination
of invasive species, the transport of
waste to landfill, grading the land and
improving vegetation by keeping the
species of interest such as rosemary,
lavender and mastic.
In addition existing trees will be
pruned and forest species such as
holm oaks, Kermes oaks, carob trees,
wild olive trees and mastic trees will
be planted on the slopes. From: Las
Provincias
• Unemployment rose by 47,047
people from July, the biggest rise
on record for a month of August
since 2011.
• The official number of people
without a job is now 3.18 million:
1.3 million men and 1.87 million
women.
• There were 1.6 million new job
contracts signed in August, a 4.3%
rise from the same month last year.
But of these, only 153,921 were
permanent contracts, representing
9.61% of the total. see: El País