Uruguay. The Municipal Municipality of Montevideo (IMM) will install security cameras to control and eradicate endemic garbage dumps in the city. The initiative will begin to be implemented in the first months of the year.
The director of Environmental Development of the IMM, Juan Canessa, said that the municipal government plans to install in the first months of 2015 cameras in strategic points of the city to control and try to eradicate landfills.
He assured that in principle there will be eight cameras that will be connected to a monitoring center that will work in the Intendancy, and then double the number.
"We are forming a small team that will collaborate with the comptroller of activities related to cleaning, sanitation and the environment in a centralized place with camera placement and GPS monitoring," he told local media.
Some of the cameras will be fixed and others will be mobile between garbage dumps located on the periphery and on the beaches.
Canessa explained that the monitoring through GPS will be carried out obliging all those who contract with the Department of Environmental Development for a period of more than five months and those who provide private services related to environmental issues, such as the collection services of dump truck lift and barometric.
The control and monitoring will be carried out in conjunction with the General Inspectorate, the Secretariat and the radio station to give notice and intervene as quickly as possible in case an irregularity is detected.
