City Hall does not have the money needed to reopen the La Loma landfill to eliminate the long transfers to Ixtlahuacán by GIRRSA.
Photo Caption 1: The collection company has been overwhelmed by the problem.Photo:Héctor Ruiz Mejía
Héctor Ruiz Mejía – One and half million pesos are needed to reopen the La Loma landfill in Ixtlahuacán by Grupo Integral de Recolección y Reciclados de Occidente (GIRRSA), and save its contract with the City Hall. City Hall does not have resources but it hopes GIRRSA can put up the funds to solve the problem of the long transfers to Ixtlahuacán .
This will also benefit GIRRSA, since the investment it makes in the Ixtlahuacán landfill, around two million pesos a year, will be consolidated into a single investment for the possible new landfill.
According to the municipal president of Jocotepec, José Miguel Gómez López, the collection company only has five of the seven trucks in operation needed for the collection, upsetting Jocotepec’s residents since people say they no longer know when their garbage will be collected.
The problem of the trucks has already caused intermittent collapse of the service and although José Miguel claimed that the company is willing to solve the problem, so far no action has been forthcoming. In addition to the mechanical failures that prevent the seven units from working properly, the round trip to and from the Ixtlahuacán landfill, which takes about four hours per unit, hinders the collection process, with delays accumulating for days and even weeks.
The problem is illustrated by the Mayra Berenice J. Vicente Negrete elementary school, which, according to García, principal of the school, the collection trucks do not have the capacity to go up to the school, so it has taken up to 15 days to clear the garbage that 300 children generate.
Every day the municipality generates around 40 tons of garbage; the waste that accumulates with the collection and disposal problems, leaving the 47 thousand inhabitants of Jocotepec uncertain if someday the garbage problem can be solved favorably and definitively.
«The people don’t care, the people want results’ ‘, said José Miguel, adding that although GIRRSA helped to contain the garbage crisis when the last administration had just begun, he will not hesitate to revoke the concession if they do not regularize the service.
Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan
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