Some 2,300 residents of the Los Ailes community and thousands more in Tepojaco, Cuautitlán Izcalli municipality, suffer daily from “Tersa del Golfo” sanitation Pollution from waste in a landfill that is a source of infection because it has no sanitation.
In addition, there is a large population of dogs as well as pests such as flies, cockroaches, rats, scorpions, etc., which pose a daily threat because nearby houses are adjacent to dumps.
Also, since the place has tons of waste, garbage overflowing, an explosion could be deadly as it would completely bury some houses.
María Teresa López, a neighbor in the neighborhood, said, “Many children suffer from dermatitis, gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases.
“For the health of children and the elderly, for the health of the local fauna, please help us make this event go viral,” Maria Theresa said.
Litter affects residents of “Los Ailes” in Cuautitlán Izcalli and Tepojaco
Respondents said they were concerned because the dump was so close to homes that a methane gas explosion like that at the Naucalpan “La Loma” Tepatlaxco dump could bury several homes.
“It’s been reported before, but no one has done anything about it,” he insisted
Sanitary landfills have incomplete metal fences around them, and the eddies or air lift and disperse the waste onto the street.
Ayers is an irregular neighborhood with approximately 2,368 residents. Packs of dogs roam the gray houses and dirty streets.
Laura Pérez, mother of seven, Karina, suffers from atopic conjunctivitis. His left eye is always red.
He said the condition did not improve despite applying ointment to his eyelids and eye drops in his eyes. Every month he has to go to Atizapan for a medical check-up.
Karina’s three-year-old brother Rafael suffers from atopic dermatitis. He always had small white rashes on his skin.
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many children are sick
They concluded that, on a daily basis, girls and boys were exposed to foul odors, dust, pests and frequent fumes from machines that worked non-stop to remove trash.
On social networks, people keep posting their complaints, which are uploaded to Facebook, emphasizing that filling takes years and it smells bad.
Tersa del Golfo continues to operate in Santa María Tianguistenco, in the Tepojaco region, and since January 2012, the date the municipality expressed its opposition to the project, the company has been receiving an average of 1,500 tons of waste per day from Mexico City. The city government is “the dumping ground for the Federal District.”
More than a decade later, Tersa del Golfo continues to receive waste from CDMX, despite the previous mayor’s refusal to confine the waste of the people of Izcara to this depository.
The traffic of dozens of CDMX trailers headed for Tersa del Golfo has affected the city’s streets and avenues, and because the city has no rules for truck traffic, heavy vehicles have criss-crossed streets in neighborhoods like San Francisco’s La Manga and Tepojaco, where they Destroyed the pavement there.
The Cuautitlán Izcalli city council has no authority to oversee the operations of Tersa del Golfo, whose license was issued over a three-year period from 2009 to 2012.
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