Okay! It’s over! For years, there has been an attempt to regulate the garbage dump, but participation from those involved has been minimal, and the inevitable happened. The municipal garbage dump caught fire, as we know, and it could have been much worse. “If the road and the dump hadn’t been maintained, separating all the tires, it could have been a disaster; we would have had to evacuate,” said Karina de la O., municipal delegate of Cabo San Lucas. She reported that, after last week’s fire at the landfill, they would no longer accept tires and oil traps.
She also noted that the incident consumed a third of the landfill, prompting a new policy to ban certain highly flammable materials. Additionally, she mentioned a work plan is in place to address the proper disposal of the thousands of tires discarded at the landfill, which pose significant environmental and fire risks. “It’s crucial to figure out what we’re going to do with all that waste. Once we finish covering these hectares with soil, we’ll move to phase two, which will focus on the treatment of the tires. There’s already a plan in place, and it will continue,” she assured.
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Finally, she stated that if there had not been maintenance work at the landfill since the beginning of the current administration, managing and extinguishing the fire—which lasted almost a week—would have been much more complex.
