Mexico City landfill to close
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November 24, 2010, Wednesday
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ONE of the world's largest landfills is to be closed next year because of worries that the more than 12,000 tons of garbage deposited there daily could contaminate the aquifer, according to Mexico's Interior Department.
The closure of Mexico City's massive Bordo Poniente landfill aims "to resolve once and for all the grave and latent problem of contamination" of water sources, an Interior Department statement said. The dump also represents a flood threat, as it could potentially interfere with the water drainage out of Mexico City.
Still, despite the city and federal governments' agreement to close Bordo Poniente at the end of 2011, the statement provided few details about plans to replace the massive landfill. It said only that waste treatment centers "without harmful effects on the environment and the population" would be up and running by January 1, 2012.
Officials from Mexico City's Waste Commission have said they're working to build four state-of-the-art processing centers to recycle, compost or burn for energy 85 percent of the city's trash.
Mexico City has required residents to sort trash since 2003 but hasn't provided the infrastructure to handle it, and just about a sixth of the waste here is currently recycled.
Built on a dry lake bed on the northeast edge of Mexico City in part to handle the rubble from the 1985 earthquake, Bordo Poniente takes about 12,600 tons of trash a day.
The closure of Mexico City's massive Bordo Poniente landfill aims "to resolve once and for all the grave and latent problem of contamination" of water sources, an Interior Department statement said. The dump also represents a flood threat, as it could potentially interfere with the water drainage out of Mexico City.
Still, despite the city and federal governments' agreement to close Bordo Poniente at the end of 2011, the statement provided few details about plans to replace the massive landfill. It said only that waste treatment centers "without harmful effects on the environment and the population" would be up and running by January 1, 2012.
Officials from Mexico City's Waste Commission have said they're working to build four state-of-the-art processing centers to recycle, compost or burn for energy 85 percent of the city's trash.
Mexico City has required residents to sort trash since 2003 but hasn't provided the infrastructure to handle it, and just about a sixth of the waste here is currently recycled.
Built on a dry lake bed on the northeast edge of Mexico City in part to handle the rubble from the 1985 earthquake, Bordo Poniente takes about 12,600 tons of trash a day.
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