Juárez cleanup crews collect discarded tires

NewsNM: Swickard - Stories like this give me hope that our good neighbors to the south can step back into the 21st century. Good for them! - From Rio Grande Digital.com - Juárez municipal employees, working on continuing efforts to clean up the city, collected 21,708 discarded tires this week from neighborhood streets, according to a city news release. The effort is part of a mandate from Mayor Hector “Teto” Murguia to the city Utilities Department to make Juárez a more liveable place. This week’s cleanup was particularly successful, as crews far exceeded their tire-collecting goal, which was to remove 16,000 old tires. The workers also collected about 35 tons of junk and trash from the 21 neighborhoods that were the project’s focus during the week, the city said. Removing trash and debris for the streets is a ket part of the city’s strategy to reclaim the city from organized crime groups that have caused chaos in Juárez during the last three and a half years. Read more

Juárez cleanup crews collect discarded tires