The Chapala government’s Recycling Committee will be reactivated, the next step to full operation of the center in West Ajijic.
Full cesto destined for the Ajijic Recycling Center.
Patrick O’Heffernan (Ajijic).– In a meeting between Esther Parada of the Ajijic Recycling Center and Chapala Council members and officials Thursday, March 3, the municipalidad agreed to reactivate the government committee needed to move head with the steps required for full operation of the recycling center.
The Center is currently operating at reduced capacity because its compactor – a machine needed to reduce the recycled materials for transportation to market – has not been installed and connected to electric power. The Recycling Committee will be able to address this and other needs of the Center when it is appointed.
“Yes, we want to see a strong recycling program in Ajijic,” Director of Ecology María Guadalupe Vázquez Solano told Laguna in an interview the day before the meeting, indicating that the next step was reconstituting the recycling committee.
This will be the third attempt to operate a robust recycling program in Ajijic; the last one was stymied by the previous administration. A current sticking point has been the ownership of the building, a former military training center, and the fact that it never received an address. Without an address CFE cannot set up an account to run electricity to the building to operate the Center’s compactor, bought 18 months ago with donated funds.
According to Recycling Center officials the compactor is critical for the transportation of plastics to market. Currently they are trucked to Guadalajara in small batches which is very expensive; a compactor would make transportation up to ten times more efficient, according to Recycling center leaders. Additionally they want to ensure that they have full ownership even after the compactor is installed as part of a new agreement to use the building.
Vázquez Solano told Laguna that the government is working on the problem of an address and the delay has simply been because of logistics – many steps needed. She also told Laguna that the government intends to provide the Recycling Center with an agreement that specifies that it owns the equipment, including the compactor, clearing the way for its installation.
The meeting included General Secretary Lilia Alvarado Macías, Councilman Jesús González Amezcua, Acting Ajijic Delegate Maximiliano Macías Arceo , Director of Tourism Paola de Watterlot , Ajijic Recycling Center Representative Esther Parada, and Ecology Director María Guadalupe Vázquez Solano.
In addition to the administration’s moving ahead with the Recycling Committee , Chapala President Aguirre reinforced his commitment to the Chapala environment at a meeting Thursday, March 3, with the Secretary of Environment and Territorial Development, Sergio Graf Montero to discuss an Organic waste separation project. Creation of an Integral System of Intermunicipal Waste Management (SIMARI), cooperation with CONAGUA and SEMADET to solve the problem of green algae in Lake Chapala, and setting up links to generate the breeding and growth of different types of fish in Lake Chapala.
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