In just three properties, the Mérida City Council has removed 167 tons of garbage recently. The waste was removed from three homes in Pacabtún, Mayapán, and Chenkú.
Last day the 17th on 33rd Street between 48 and 50 in Pacabtún, according to the City Council, 90 tons were removed after neighbors reported that a person had accumulated hundreds of kilos of waste in his home for years.
The house was completely clogged with waste of all kinds: tires, cardboard, jugs, tubes, bottles… There was so much garbage that the collection ended on Monday the 20th.
On the 22nd, the authority did the same on 14th and 41st streets in the Mayapán neighborhood. There, a property with 35 tons of garbage was reported.
The last case, so far, occurred last Thursday on a property in the Chenkú neighborhood, in compliance with the regulations for Cleaning, Sanitation, and Conservation of Property and the Regulation for Environmental Protection and Ecological Balance.
On the property, inhabited by an elderly woman, 42 tons of garbage that the woman had accumulated for over a decade were found.
The institutions that participated in the intervention, reported the City Council, were the Government and Municipal Coordination of Civil Protection for legal and administrative monitoring, the DIF Mérida to provide psychological and social care, Public Services in charge of operational work, the Subdirectorate of Health for monitoring sanitary, Municipal Police that acted in flagging and security, as well as the Animal Protection Unit for the case of pet rescue.
According to the City Council, the Civil Protection headquarters registered 22 properties in a high-risk situation due to extreme accumulation, of which three have already been intervened by the City Council and three by their owners due to warnings.
The removed garbage is taken to the landfill.
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