Maracaibo City Hall adds another 14 units for the city's urban sanitation service

Published at: 22/12/2025 10:59 PM

The Mayor's Office of Maracaibo, in partnership with the company Fospuca, added another 14 new solid waste compacting units to the city's urban sanitation service, the president (e) of the Municipal Institute of Urban Cleaning (IMAU), Joemel Robles, reported this Monday, December 22.

In an informative report from the city council, Robles explained that the new units can move up to seven tons of waste on each route, since they are 20-cubic yard trucks.

He pointed out that “approximately a daily collection of 300 new tons of garbage is incorporated, which will allow us to follow this process of normalizing the frequency in all parishes.”

“Currently we can take stock of the collection system in Maracaibo and say that it is controlled but not normalized in the 18 parishes, because we started with a collection once a week, then twice a week, then three times a week, however, with this new addition, we can announce that, with a new management and management model, daily collection will reach several parishes,” announced the director of Public Services.

According to the planning of the Maracaibo Mayor's Office, the city requires 120 compacting units to normalize service and ensure daily waste collection.

With the 14 new compacting units, the parishes of Cacique Mara, Juana de Ávila and Olegario Villalobos, which had a frequency of three times a week, are now moving to a daily frequency during the day.

In the case of Raúl Leoni parishes, from twice a week, it now goes to three times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, while Idelfonso Vásquez and Antonio Borjas Romero parishes will have a collection frequency of twice a week.

The process of adjusting and optimizing solid waste collection frequencies is being carried out progressively until an increasingly better frequency is achieved in the 18 parishes of the city, he said.

Mazo News Team