Overview
- The Ministry of the Environment formalized the measure on Jan. 6 via Resolution No. 00361-2025-MINAM after a partial halt in waste operations.
- Carabayllo must submit a detailed action plan within seven working days and report weekly, with technical support from Minam, Lima’s metropolitan government and the regional government.
- The Health Ministry has launched inspections, including at Hospital Nacional Sergio Bernales, through Digesa and Diris Lima Norte to ensure proper handling of hazardous waste.
- The municipality says six garbage compactors will be added this week—three Wednesday and three Friday—and officials are weighing an end to outsourcing of trash collection.
- The breakdown followed the Dec. 12 termination of the private operator, with piles reported in El Progreso, Vista Alegre and San Pedro during the summer season, and the decree preserves officials’ administrative liability under Minister Miguel Ángel Espichán Mariñas’s signature.