The border between Ezeiza and La Matanza has once again been exposed by a recurring problem: mountains of waste in a border area that collapses again within days, despite cleanup operations. According to the Argentine News Agency, the scene is concentrated on a stretch of Blas Parera Street, where a new cleanup deployment with machinery and crews has been activated. However, residents report the same diagnosis: the area is cleaned, but the garbage returns. In this context, the Ezeiza municipality acknowledged that the volume of the landfill exceeds the capacity of services in border zones, where people from different districts converge and oversight becomes operationally challenging. Mayor Gastón Granados addressed the issue on social media, toughening his message: he stated that the municipality works “constantly” but that “waste continues to collapse the site,” and warned that “there is no resource or service that can support such a volume.” In response, the local executive announced that it will proceed with the installation of surveillance cameras and the construction of a police control post, with the stated goal of deterring those who dump waste irregularly. The incident also revealed another layer: the landfill has become ammunition in internal political disputes in Buenos Aires Province, with accusations of responsibility flying across the municipal border. Meanwhile, the core problem persists: the traceability of waste (who dumps it, where it comes from, and how it is penalized) and the lack of a sustained control scheme that does not rely solely on reactive operations.
