State legislators from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) are proposing a bill that would see property tax discounts and other benefits given to citizens who separate their garbage.
Their proposal also recommends that municipalities apply mandatory sanctions to people who fail to separate their trash.
“Garbage is accumulating in the streets, on the corners, on the sidewalks in front of our houses. We are outraged and rightly so,” said Hugo Contreras, leader of the PRI faction in the Jalisco legislature. “The landfills are full or insufficient and their management is not the most best. We all generate garbage; we are part of the problem and we must participate in the solution.”
Each person on Jalisco generates just under a kilo of garbage every day, according to the PRI legislators. Some 38 percent of the waste collected could be recycled, they say. But of the 7,700 tons of garbage collected each day in the state, only 29,000 kilograms is separated for recycling.
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