{"id":23761,"date":"2024-10-30T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/?p=23761"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:40:19","slug":"sims-metal-chatarra-reciclador-permiso-protesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2024\/10\/30\/sims-metal-scrap-metal-recycler-permit-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Los vecinos de Pilsen piden al alcalde de Chicago que deniegue el permiso a una planta de reciclaje de chatarra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fws_69e23a4a67d26\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone\"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone\"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los manifestantes se reunieron frente al Ayuntamiento de Chicago el lunes para exigir que la ciudad no apruebe un permiso para las instalaciones de Sims Metal Management en el barrio de Pilsen, que recicla chatarra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los miembros de la Alianza Medioambiental del Suroeste manifestaron su deseo de que el Departamento de Salud P\u00fablica de Chicago lleve a cabo una evaluaci\u00f3n exhaustiva de los riesgos antes de conceder el permiso a Sims y de que la ciudad tenga en cuenta los problemas medioambientales y sanitarios existentes en la comunidad. Hicieron un llamamiento al alcalde para que cumpla su <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2023\/9\/18\/23877909\/environmental-racism-brandon-johnson-hud-chicago\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">promete luchar contra el racismo medioambiental <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">y proteger lo que la ciudad denomina \"comunidades de justicia medioambiental\", aquellas que soportan una mayor carga de contaminaci\u00f3n procedente de la industria y el tr\u00e1fico.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Queremos que el alcalde d\u00e9 un paso al frente\", dijo Theresa McNamara, presidenta de la Alianza Medioambiental del Suroeste, una coalici\u00f3n de grupos del Southwest Side que incluye los barrios predominantemente latinos de Pilsen, Little Village y Back of the Yards. \"Nos ha estado desatendiendo\".<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"templatera_shortcode\">\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69e23a4a69417\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex vc_row-o-content-middle small\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; 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\" class=\"vc_col-sm-5 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col child_column neg-marg no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone\"   data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"_form_1\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.bluelena.io\/f\/embed.php?id=1\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El 8 de octubre, la ciudad emiti\u00f3 un proyecto de permiso para continuar con las operaciones de trituraci\u00f3n de chatarra en 2500 S. Paulina Street, declarando que la solicitud cumple con las normas de la ciudad para grandes instalaciones de reciclaje. La ciudad <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/city\/en\/depts\/cdph\/provdrs\/environmental_health\/svcs\/community-environment-information.html#simsdraftpermit\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aceptaci\u00f3n de comentarios del p\u00fablico<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sobre el proyecto de permiso hasta el 7 de noviembre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La portavoz del CDPH, Grace Adams, dijo que el departamento har\u00eda \"los ajustes necesarios\" en el proyecto de permiso tras el periodo de comentarios p\u00fablicos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El reciclador de chatarra fue demandado por el Estado de Illinois en 2021 por <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov\/News-Room\/2021-Press-Release-Archive\/202110-22%20FILES%20LAWSUIT%20AND%20INTERIM%20ORDER%20AGAINST%20SIMS%20METAL%20MANAGEMENT.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">infringiendo las normas federales sobre contaminaci\u00f3n atmosf\u00e9rica.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> La Agencia de Protecci\u00f3n del Medio Ambiente orden\u00f3 a Sims que instalara monitores de aire y lleva recogiendo datos sobre contaminantes potencialmente peligrosos de los monitores desde septiembre de 2022. Los monitores recogen informaci\u00f3n sobre compuestos org\u00e1nicos vol\u00e1tiles, m\u00faltiples metales y <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/pm-pollution\/particulate-matter-pm-basics\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PM10<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">que pueden provocar enfermedades card\u00edacas o pulmonares y est\u00e1n formados por diversos materiales, como humo, holl\u00edn y metales.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"La EPA exigi\u00f3 la supervisi\u00f3n del aire en Sims porque queremos que la comunidad tenga un aire limpio\", dijo un portavoz de la agencia. \"La EPA entiende que la comunidad tiene preocupaciones de justicia ambiental y queremos ser receptivos\".\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seg\u00fan la EPA, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/il\/sims-metal-management\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">datos del monitor de contaminaci\u00f3n atmosf\u00e9rica<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> que han recogido hasta ahora muestra que las emisiones de la empresa de reciclado de chatarra no causar\u00edan efectos a corto o largo plazo sobre la salud de la comunidad cercana a la instalaci\u00f3n, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pero los residentes de las inmediaciones quieren que se apliquen m\u00e1s controles de la contaminaci\u00f3n atmosf\u00e9rica antes de que se conceda otro permiso.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Sims Metal lleva varios a\u00f1os colaborando con la ciudad de Chicago y el Estado de Illinois para mejorar los resultados medioambientales de su planta de Pilsen. De hecho, la EPA de los Estados Unidos acaba de dar el visto bueno al aire de nuestras instalaciones\", declar\u00f3 un portavoz de Sims a Borderless Magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sims tambi\u00e9n dijo que la empresa completar\u00e1 la instalaci\u00f3n de equipos de control medioambiental actualizados en las instalaciones antes de diciembre para mejorar la calidad del aire y minimizar las emisiones futuras. La EPA tiene previsto probar el equipo antes de enero de 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Esta renovaci\u00f3n no cambiar\u00e1 nuestro enfoque en las asociaciones serias con nuestros vecinos y nuestra cooperaci\u00f3n con todas las agencias federales, estatales y locales para cumplir o superar las expectativas operativas\", dijo el portavoz de Sims. \"La salud y la seguridad de la comunidad, en particular de los residentes cercanos, as\u00ed como de nuestros empleados, sigue siendo nuestra prioridad n\u00famero uno\".<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brian McKeon, uno de los activistas presentes en la protesta, afirm\u00f3 que Sims y el Estado tambi\u00e9n deber\u00edan medir las PM2,5 en el aire, que proceden de coches y camiones, f\u00e1bricas, combusti\u00f3n de madera y humo. Los defensores del medio ambiente de la zona suroeste ya hab\u00edan expresado anteriormente su preocupaci\u00f3n por la salud y el medio ambiente de su comunidad debido a las PM2,5 procedentes de los camiones que entran y salen de grandes instalaciones industriales como Sims.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tres escuelas se encuentran en un radio de una milla de la instalaci\u00f3n de chatarra, un factor que la EPA y la ciudad deben tener en cuenta al evaluar las repercusiones ambientales y sanitarias de la contaminaci\u00f3n de la instalaci\u00f3n, dijo McKeon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los miembros de la comunidad presentes en la protesta tambi\u00e9n afirmaron que la ciudad deber\u00eda tener en cuenta el historial de infracciones medioambientales de Sim y los riesgos que plantea para la ya sobrecargada comunidad de Pilsen a la hora de decidir si concede o no el permiso, y llevar a cabo una evaluaci\u00f3n exhaustiva de los riesgos.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adams, del CDPH, dijo que una evaluaci\u00f3n del impacto en la salud es una herramienta que el departamento utiliza para evaluar los impactos en la salud de la comunidad circundante para instalaciones nuevas o en expansi\u00f3n; sin embargo, Sims no propone operaciones nuevas o ampliadas en su solicitud de permiso que puedan aumentar los impactos ambientales o de riesgo para la salud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La alcald\u00eda no respondi\u00f3 a la solicitud de comentarios.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La presi\u00f3n de los miembros de la comunidad para mejorar la protecci\u00f3n de la salud forma parte de un esfuerzo m\u00e1s amplio de los grupos de defensa del medio ambiente para conseguir que la ciudad tenga en cuenta las condiciones ambientales existentes en las comunidades a la hora de tomar decisiones sobre los permisos.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone\"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69e23a4a6c50e\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row article-image\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; 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padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone\"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone\"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">En 2022, el HUD descubri\u00f3 que las pol\u00edticas de permisos y zonificaci\u00f3n de la ciudad eran discriminatorias desde el punto de vista medioambiental y afectaban de forma desproporcionada a las comunidades de color de las zonas sur y oeste. El organismo exigi\u00f3 a la ciudad que <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hud.gov\/press\/press_releases_media_advisories\/hud_no_23_095\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reformar sus pol\u00edticas de planificaci\u00f3n y zonificaci\u00f3n<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> para abordar la cuesti\u00f3n.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La ciudad ya ha empezado a trabajar, y el a\u00f1o pasado finaliz\u00f3 un estudio de impactos acumulativos, pero a\u00fan tiene que presentar una ordenanza sobre impactos acumulativos, que exigir\u00eda a los reguladores tener en cuenta las repercusiones colectivas sobre el medio ambiente y la salud que tendr\u00eda el funcionamiento de una instalaci\u00f3n en la comunidad circundante. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/city\/en\/depts\/cdph\/supp_info\/Environment\/cumulative-impact-assessment.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La evaluaci\u00f3n<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> identific\u00f3 a Pilsen como una de las comunidades m\u00e1s castigadas por la contaminaci\u00f3n y vulnerables a sus efectos en funci\u00f3n de la exposici\u00f3n ambiental, los problemas de salud existentes y los factores socioecon\u00f3micos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Tengo una enfermedad pulmonar, y mi madre muri\u00f3 de una enfermedad pulmonar\", dijo Mary Gonzales, una de las activistas en el Ayuntamiento y residente de Pilsen desde hace mucho tiempo. \"Y la raz\u00f3n por la que tengo una enfermedad pulmonar es porque vivo en el barrio en el que me gusta vivir\".\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sims Metal Management y la EPA afirman que la empresa de reciclaje no produce contaminaci\u00f3n peligrosa. 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