Waste management has sparked considerable controversy in the Valencian Community in recent years. The controversy has broken out, firstly, over a clear failure to comply with each of the guidelines enforced by the community’s autonomous administration, guidelines that are still not being followed today despite the fact that the Integrated Waste Plan from 2013, currently being amended, is in force. Secondly, some of the corruption networks in the region made profits from treatment plant contracts, but the contracts awarded to them were subsequently nullified. More recently, environmental bodies have issued warnings over the lack of in-depth data, statistics and studies on waste management.