How is the sanitary dump in the Carabayo area?

The Municipality of Lima closed for 30 days the El Zapallal sanitary landfill, located in the Carabaillo district, due to alleged violations by the concessionaire Innova related to unfair practices in solid waste disposal.

According to the municipality of Lima, this represents “serious threat to public health”because it allows the spread of infectious foci, will affect an average of 100 thousand people in Carabayo. Thus, the Innova concessionaire currently has an “immediate imperative” to correct the shortcomings.

Considering this, the city service manager of the metropolitan municipality, Roberto Perez, indicated that since September 2022, six sanctions proceedings have been initiated against Innova for bad faith. This is stated in the report of the Environmental Assessment and Control Agency (OEFA).

It should be noted that the area of ​​the landfill is 42 hectares in total, on which ten different districts deposit their solid waste.

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for the mayor A stone bridgeRennan Espinoza, the closure was implemented unexpectedly, so he asked the mayor of Lima, Rafael López Allaga, to give them the opportunity to adjust the budget to extend the closure period by at least 60 days.

“I explained to the mayor of Lima that the closure cannot be made out of time without a preliminary contingency plan.. And he explained to me that the sanitary landfill does not meet environmental standards and therefore should be closed, ”he said in News Extension from PTR.

“We asked the Mayor of Lima to give us a period of at least 60 days to allow the municipalities to adjust their budget, change their routes and be able to provide better services to the community (…). On average, it used to take us from one and a half to forty five hours, and this allowed us to have a frequency of up to three routes per day, now we take an average of six hours, some a little more. which allows you to make only one route in time. There is terrible damage and we did not have time to collect garbage in all the streets in a timely manner,” he added.

Meanwhile, Elvis Becerrathe deputy mayor of Carabaillo, indicated that Pablo Mendoza, the mayor of the aforementioned area, intends to permanently close the space.

“Our mayor’s position is that this is not only a temporary closure, but also a final solution for the well-being and health of the residents surrounding this entire sector. We are working on it. line that there was not enough coordination between the municipality of Lima and the areas involved in the final disposal of this landfill,” he said.