“I don’t know what to do anymore. I don’t know where they are getting in. I have all the doors covered with rags,” complained a woman about foul odors from the accumulation of garbage
Garbage from about 15 days ago at the J. Vicente Negrete elementary school. Photo: Courtesy.
Héctor Ruiz Mejía: The inconsistent garbage collection system in the municipality of Jocotepec generates growing sanitary risks for residents, according to a survey conducted by Semanario Laguna.
One person responding to the survey was Mayra Berenice García, director of the J. Vicente Negrete elementary school in El Molino. She said about 15 days worth of garbage has accumulated at the school, generated by the 300 children who attend the institution.
“It has been an odyssey,” Mayra explained. “They told us that the truck cannot reach where we are. We are up the hill and they tell us the truck doesn’t have enough gasoline, so they ask me to take the garbage down myself.” She said she must carry garbage about 200 meters down the hill.
“Even the director of Aseo Público, Anselmo, has asked me to take the garbage in my truck, which doesn’t cost me anything,” said Mayra, adding that even when they have done so, dogs have destroyed the bags, so they have to gather the garbage again. She prefers to keep it at the school until Aseo Público comes to pick it up.
Gustavo, who runs a grocery store in San Juan Cosalá, has also been affected. Accumulated garbage sometimes gives off unpleasant odors. “It’s worse when there are street markets,” he said. “All the vegetable garbage is left there to spoil.”
A resident named Claudia said rats are a bigger problem than the unpleasant smell. Rats have invaded her house, thanks to the garbage. “I don’t know what to do. I don’t know where they get in. I have covered all the doors with rags,” she said in a distressed way.
While Jocotepec residents try to improvise ways of solving the problem, they fear the crisis will worsen.
In addition, the Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos government recently refused to allow riverside communities to dump their garbage in the GEN landfill. This has caused dozens of Jocotepenses to store garbage in their homes.
Translated by Mike Rogers
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