The Montevideo Municipality announced that these days before Christmas 83% of the waste from the containers was collected, within the framework of a special cleaning operation for the end of the year holidays.
The Cleaning Division published a statement reminding citizens that the service will resume starting this Monday at 10 p.m., while the differentiated and manual collections, as well as the Recycling Neighborhood by Neighborhood program for housing cooperatives and large complexes will resume starting next Tuesday. Meanwhile, the ecocenters The mayor’s office will also be closed this Monday and will resume next Tuesday.
For their part, the mayor reminded that, if you see waste outside the container, you must send a photo and location to the WhatsApp from the mayor’s office to the only number: 092 250 260. Meanwhile, if you have recyclable materials, the bag will have to be requested to qualify the plastic, cardboard, cans and paper, while the material must be clean and compacted. To do this, you must also take a photo and send it to the location so that it can be picked up.
Furthermore, the Division reported that no containers burned so far and that, if you see one, you should immediately call the firefighters through 911.
The government’s million-dollar investment
He National government will invest some 17 million dollars within the framework of a plan to close more than 60 open-air landfills throughout the national territory, in a search to recover environments and dignify the work of workers who carry out tasks linked to the recycling.
In this line, the President Luis Lacalle Pou At the beginning of December, he led the inauguration of a recycling sorting plant in Silver City, Department of Saint Josephensuring that “environmental awareness is fundamental.”
“He Ministry of Environment (MA) begins to play a role, not only in the control of some industrial and productive activities, but also in its task, which is the most difficult, because controlling others is the easiest,” he remarked. Lacalle Pou on the government portfolio.
Likewise, the president highlighted that the Executive Branch is trying to coordinate with the municipalities of Canelones and Montevideo the recycling of “garbage that makes money on a large scale”, which is capable of “transforming into biofuel and other things”. “Uruguay is prepared for that,” he said.
From now on, the household waste of the inhabitants of the area will be classified in the recycling plant, which has three intervened containers, where the garbage that is not reusable will be transferred to the departmental landfill of San José in order to offer safe conditions. appropriate jobs for recyclers.
In turn, the MA contributed a figure close to 1 million dollars for works on the transfer station, in whose management the National Institute of Cooperatives (Inacoop) and the Ministry of Social Development (Mides).
Source: Ambito
