Overview
- Downtown La Plata, especially Calle 8, saw baskets and containers overflowing with mounting trash during Christmas.
- Residents and some shopkeepers placed bags on the street when bins filled up, creating unsanitary hotspots that can attract pests.
- Complaints spread beyond the city center to Camino Centenario, with reports concentrated in Gonnet and Ringuelet.
- City officials had suspended night trash pickup on December 24 and 25 and asked neighbors not to take out waste on those days.
- Municipal authorities said regular collection would resume on Friday, December 26, though piles were still visible early that morning.