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A first batch of machinery that is part of the project “Improvement and expansion of the public cleaning service in the city and final disposal of 9 districts of the province of Trujillo”, where the Ministry of the Environment (MINAM) invests about S/ 90 million, He was received yesterday by Mayor Arturo Fernández Bazán at the front of the municipal palace.
The machinery was presented to the city by the mayor and the manager of the Environmental Management Service (Segat), Gisella León Algarate, stating that this will help to continue optimizing the public cleaning service and green areas, guarantee its sustainability and improve working conditions from the workers.
There are 6 compactors (of a total of 27 that will arrive, of which 22 have container lifters), 20 motorcycle cars (of 27), 1 tanker (of 2), 4 linear motorcycles and 3 dump trucks, which are part of the machinery component of the project. and they come with a geolocation system that will allow you to know where they are in real time.
Mayor Arturo Fernández said that the machinery is the result of the effort made and thanked Mario Paucar, a Minam official, for helping him carry out this project that will allow Trujillo and districts to have a landfill and equipment for public cleaning services, recovery and final disposition.
The machinery will help the Segat worker not bend so much and end up with low back pain when collecting garbage bags daily. They are going to have a better quality of work and life, which is not what the unions have done, he said.
He denounced that this project had been delayed in Minam due to bribery issues and indicated that the level of late payment for the public cleaning tax in Trujillo continues to be very high: 82%, which does not help to improve services. .
The Segat manager said that another component of the project has begun, which is the landfill, with an investment of S/ 42 million, which was tendered by Minam, adding that the entire machinery package must be completed by November 15. , to better serve the 27 routes that Trujillo has for the collection of household solid waste; specifying that in 15 or 30 days the paperwork will be formalized to use the equipment that has just arrived.
It is estimated that the physical works of the landfill will be completed in 12 months and there is a separate area of ??67.66 hectares in the El Alto sector, in Huanchaco, where 5.2 million m³ of waste will be stored and a leachate pond for 17 thousand m³ will be installed.
The landfill seeks to provide a comprehensive solution to the problem of final disposal of waste from: Huanchaco, El Porvenir, La Esperanza, Víctor Larco, Moche, Laredo, Florencia de Mora, Salaverry and Trujillo, disposing of solid waste in a permanent, sanitary and environmentally safe. Waste that cannot be recycled and recovered will go there, minimizing the impact on health and the environment.
This project is executed through an agreement between MINAM, MPT and SEGAT and is financed through the Con Punch Peru program and includes activities for storage and street and square sweeping services, collection and transportation, reuse of organic and inorganic waste and final disposal.
