The mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, detailed the progress of the Basic Citizen Support Plan (ABC), which aims to make the capital “increasingly cleaner, more efficient and sustainable”, advancing in the eradication of garbage dumps and the creation of gardens.
cosse He highlighted that the strategy to advance in this sense involves greater inspection, better urban cleaning, improved and differentiated collection, more valorization and more social inclusion, as indicated during his dissertation, titled Montevideo Green Capital, within the framework of an event organized by We are Uruguay.
cosse highlighted that Montevideo “It is a green capital that we must rediscover by visiting all its corners, take care of it, enhance it and make it grow in its capacity so that it becomes an example of environmental management,” highlighting that it has 300,000 trees and committed to increasing that amount by 50% in 10 years.
Greener Montevideo
Within the framework of sustainable measures, the department head specified about the program Greener Montevideowhich he defined: “Not only is it a dream, but it is a project in motion that has allowed us to consolidate a new way of working, with great citizen participation.”
cosse assessed that “whether WhatsApp or in presence, when we land in the neighborhoods and turn a garbage dump into a grove, into a public space, into a garden or we change the waste collection in the place, we go with light, it is a changing reality that we are not going to give up .
The leader highlighted the importance of environmental care and comprehensive maintenance of cleanliness in her management of the capital, which concentrates more than 42 percent of the country’s 3.4 million inhabitants in a territory of 530 square kilometers.
New cleaning mode
Along these lines, he highlighted the new modality implemented in the issue of cleaning in Montevideo, declared this year Green Capital of Ibero-America. Furthermore, he recalled that the strategy Greener Montevideo came up in conversations with Guillermo Moncecchi, current director of Environmental Development.
“With two great cultural conceptions, of changing the paradigm and having a differentiated view, we began to develop the strategy Greener Montevideo and for this the ABC plan gave us a deep knowledge of a complex reality from a social point of view, but also from an environmental point of view,” he said. Cosse.
Along these lines, he observed that environmental problems are not only “in the peripheral strip of the city”, but also in the “consolidated areas” and he reviewed: “There are different areas with different problems, but they are quite serious whether in Wells, he Prado, Lezica or in Colon”.
Therefore, he highlighted that Greener Montevideo It is a strategy that is committed “to a cultural change through the responsible use of resources, the intelligent organization of services, the social inclusion of the inhabitants, the generation of opportunities and the care of diversity, for which it is also essential the commitment of everyone with the goal of making the city increasingly cleaner, efficient, sustainable and egalitarian.”
The mayor highlighted that among the main actions deployed are the bag classification program, the Greener Montevideo online, so that neighbors can report the existence of waste outside the containers, the neighborhood-by-neighborhood recycling plan for cooperatives and housing complexes, the installation of ecocenters, the environmental volunteer program and the innovative and discussed removal of trash cans from public spaces.
Likewise, he added that, within the framework of this strategy, the creation of the environmental observatory, a new cleaning and waste strategy, liberated areas and renaturalization, sanitation coverage and sustainable drainage, as well as the protection of urban wetlands and water courses.
Source: Ambito
