The Municipality of Montevideo (IMM) decided to create a Cleanup Environmental Stewardship Trust and Collection that was awarded to Fiduciary and Professional Management for the cleaning of Municipality B, which will allow it to have control of waste collection in all the neighborhoods of the Uruguayan capital.
Less than a year ago, the IMM had resolved not to renew the agreement with the Environmental Consortium of La Plata (CAP) for the cleaning of Municipality B. Faced with this, as confirmed by El Observador, the mayor created an Environmental Administration Trust for Cleaning and Collection that was awarded to the company Fiduciary and Professional Management.
This company will provide waste collection services up to the street cleaning in Municipality B without depending on a private company and without the need to incorporate officials into the municipal payroll. It will also be in charge of signing contracts with more than 300 workers – which previously depended on CAP – and pay their salaries.
The agreement will be in force for 18 months, with a transition that began last year when it was announced that the contract will not be renewed with CAP, which took place until December 31, 2022 and which began in the year 2003 in the month of July. However, the municipality will have its agreement with the Teyma company, managed by CAP, for the leasing of trucks and containers.
According to the IMM, people living on the streets are the cause of the increase in waste
Earlier this month, the Municipality of Montevideo (IMM) communicated that it considers that the increase in waste in the streets of the city is a consequence of the increase in people who they live on the streetsas explained by the director of Environmental Development, Guillermo Mocecchi.
“Large waste in Montevideo What is on the street has to do with people living on the street,” he said when asked on Channel 10 about the problem of waste in the city, particularly large ones, such as bags and waste. “The problem of people living on the streets is very big. Lots of people on the street that he looks for in the containers”, he added.
The director assured that, for this reason, the departmental government reduced the number of containers in neighborhoods with a high population density. In little bits and Punta Carretas, for example, switched to a daily collection system. Also for this reason it was decided to remove the litter bins from public spaces, such as on Avenida 18 de Julio. “The goal is to minimize the amount of time waste is on the street, in the containers,” Moncecchi said.
Source: Ambito
