The Bolivarian Government installed in Zulia the Operational Committee for the Management of Solid Waste

Published at: 10/08/2025 11:59 AM

The Bolivarian Government installed in the state of Zulia the Operational Committee for the Management of Solid Waste, said the Minister of Popular Power for Ecosocialism, Ricardo Molina, in the Palace of Los Cóndores, headquarters of the Zulian Government.

On his account on the social network Instagram, Molina, together with the governor of the entity, Luis Caldera, mayors and mayors, indicated that “the garbage situation in Zulia is an issue that we are dealing with together in order to resolve in the shortest time”.

“For this reason, we put science and technology into the search for solutions and how, instead of seeing garbage as a problem, we see it as a source of raw material,” he explained.

Molina indicated that he is working with the head of the entity to repopulate degraded territories, as well as the recovery of the Catatumbo swamps, the Sierra de Perijá Park, the Juan Manuel Swamp.

Also the establishment of weather stations in each of the communes, with the collection of 10,000 kilos of seeds of all forest and fruit species, to produce 805,000 plants for the reforestation plan.

He also announced that to date 310 Ecosocialist Councils have been constituted “of the 576 that we must consolidate in each of the communal circuits in the region. We are well ahead!”

For his part, Governor Luis Caldera stated that it is not enough to collect garbage, but rather to the awareness of citizens and to make this waste a raw material for other actions.

Among these actions, he mentioned the maintenance of surface drains or glens, which have been converted into landfills in the absence of collection by previous municipal and regional governments, which causes inhabitants to throw waste into them, generating floods in the areas themselves.

Caldera reported on the creation under decree of the Operational Committee for the Reforestation of the Hydrographic Basins of the Apón, Palmar, Cachirí, Socuy, Guasare, Chiquito River and Rio Grande River in Burro Negro and Machango.

He specified that the reforestation will be carried out with the participation of the Ministries for Ecosocialism; Water Care and for Science and Technology; the Institute for the Control and Conservation of the Lake Maracaibo Basin (ICLAM); the Corporation for the Development of the Zulian Region (Corpozulia), Carbozulia, municipalities and municipalities.

He also announced the creation of a nursery on the premises of the Maracaibo Zoological Park.