The Provincial Municipality of Trujillo (MPT) has reported that as of today the landfill begins to operate, in the El Milagro town center, in the district of Huanchaco. This is a great project that has been completed with an investment of more than S/ 91 million.
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However, not everything is happy in that sector, since at least 300 recyclers who had the previous dump as their work center said that this new infrastructure leaves them without their source of work and they do not know what they will do to support their families.
They protest
The workers arrived outside the landfill yesterday morning to demand that the officials of the Environmental Management Service of Trujillo (Segat) comply with what they supposedly offered them; that is, work in the area. “We live off recycling. We have been here for many years and now what are we going to do? “They tell us that they are going to give us groceries, but that is not what we want”said a mother.
Faced with this situation, the recyclers formed a board headed by a woman identified as Hilda Benites to hold a meeting with the manager of Segat, Wilso Rodríguez Vásquez.
“They have treated us and told us that we cannot enter the landfill. That the law prohibits it. Now we don’t know what to do, they turn their backs on us. “We only have to organize ourselves and continue demanding,” he stated.
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Correo tried to obtain Wilsono Rodríguez’s version, but he did not answer the calls.
According to schedule, this morning, the Minister of the Environment, Juan Carlos Castro Vargas, and the mayor of Trujillo, Mario Reyna Rodríguez, will inaugurate the landfill.
The arrival of the President of the Republic, Dina Boluarte, was scheduled, but her visit to Trujillo was ruled out.
