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The multi‑municipal clean‑up effort that began on 26 By the end of July 2026 the cross‑border clean‑up effort continued to expand through late July. broaden. In Los Cabos, town‑hall Cabos municipal crews cleared more than 60 tonnes of debris from the López Obrador neighbourhood, while Ecatepec’s night‑time collection program removed reported a cumulative removal of 14,449 tonnes of waste over six months to reduce curb flood risk. Huixquilucan added three tonnes of electronic, plastic and cardboard material collected during the Eco Cambalache 2026 events. Tampico’s new waste‑transfer centre now processes kept processing about 700 tonnes of material each day—400 tonnes of daily, split among solid urban waste, 250 tonnes of special waste and 50 tonnes from regular descacharrización rounds. streams. Cuautla reaffirmed its plan to turn upgrade the La Perseverancia landfill into a regional waste‑valorisation complex capable of handling up to 1 000 tonnes per day and creating roughly 300 jobs for at least 18 municipalities. In Cancun’s Supermanzana 95, crews removed a substantial amount of unusable items and provided assistance to a resident struggling with addiction. Coastal clean‑ups Chile, volunteers in Chile’s Tongoy and Guanaqueros stripped storm‑debris from Playa Grande and nearby beaches ahead of the tourist season. Meanwhile, volunteers in the Yucatán Peninsula continued to extract five tonnes The State of PET and other plastics from 14 beaches Mexico’s Corregidora municipality coordinated with Conagua to locate and collected 816 kg of micro‑plastics at Puerto Progreso. close clandestine discharges affecting the El Batán reservoir, reinforcing federal water‑management goals. These coordinated actions demonstrate illustrate an increasingly large‑scale, cross‑border expanding, multi‑municipal push to improve waste management, protect public health, health and support environmental sustainability. sustainability across Mexico and Chile.