Outside of Oaxaca City. You pass dozens of recycling buyers on the route to this landfill.
If you look closely, you can see workers with super sacks sorting out PET, Metal, HDPE and OCC. This is a common sight all over Latin America and the world. People working in horrible conditions and living on or near the landfill. I would assume this landfill is emitting a horrendous amount of methane. It is clearly not capturing any of it for energy use or flaring.
Just a little lechate leak.
This landfill is one of 5 huge landfills outside of Mexico City. Really hard to tell how big this is, but if you look closely you can see tiny long haul transfer trucks dumping waste. This landfill was just dug right into the side of a mountain.
A lot more to cover on Mexico City's new transfer station system. I was unable to get a picture of one of the reload trucks so I'll have to make a trip back to cover that. Long story short, collection trucks gather and dump waste at the transfer stations on the outskirts of town where material is loaded onto long haul tractor trailers and taken to landfill. A relatively new development in Mexico City from my understanding.
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