La Paz Mayor Milena Quiroga Romero announced that the city’s new Solid Waste Transfer Center has reached roughly 90% completion. Workers have finished the base for the first weigh scale, and crews are now mounting the equipment. A second scale will arrive soon, and installation of the compactor hopper and roof is already underway.
Equipment testing is scheduled to begin in early June. The tests will include a full load-and-unload simulation to verify the facility works as designed before it opens for regular operations.
How the Transfer Center Will Change Trash Pickup
The facility will serve as an intermediate stop between neighborhood collection routes and the city’s landfill. Right now, garbage trucks in La Paz must drive all the way to the landfill after completing each route. That round trip burns fuel, wears down aging trucks, and delays the start of the next pickup run.
Once the transfer center opens, collection trucks will dump their loads at the closer facility instead. Larger transfer vehicles will then haul compacted waste to the landfill in bulk. The city expects to cut fuel costs, reduce maintenance expenses on its fleet, and speed up collection times across La Paz neighborhoods.
What It Means for Collection Schedules
Irregular garbage pickup has been a longstanding complaint in La Paz, a city of roughly 300,000 residents on the southern Baja California peninsula. Trucks that spend less time on landfill runs can cover more routes per day. The compactor hopper at the transfer center will also compress waste, meaning fewer total trips to the landfill are needed.
The two industrial weigh scales will track how much waste enters and leaves the facility. That data gives the municipality better tools for managing disposal costs and planning future capacity.
The project was first reported by BCS Noticias.