Ecobreves – EL SALVADOR:: Waste Treatment Plan Underway

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SAN SALVADOR, Sep 1 2003 (IPS) - Lawmakers, environmental authorities and municipal officials in El Salvador have set up a commission to draft a plan for sanitary landfills Just 23 of the country's 262 municipalities have adequate solid waste treatment systems.

The Ministry of Environment plans to construct eight sanitary landfills, with an investment of 38.5 million dollars, José Leonidas Rivera, general manager of the Salvadoran Municipal Development Institute, told Tierramérica.

According to the environmental laws in force, the landfills must be established by March 2004. But because most municipalities have not yet conducted the necessary preparatory work, parliament extended the deadline another year