Vallarta expects regular garbage pickup to return this week after two roadblocks. The city had 26 of its 35 garbage trucks available.
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, November 11, 2026 – Puerto Vallarta’s public services chief has confirmed that regular garbage pickup will resume this week. That’s the latest promise from City Hall after two roadblocks were set up on the Libramiento Luis Donaldo Colosio on Tuesday because of missed garbage pickups.
Rodolfo Domínguez Monroy said that the city had 26 of its 35 garbage trucks available. The backlog was due to breakdowns, with trucks that worked one day being out of action the next. The city had also had a diesel problem for several days, though that had been sorted out after discussions with the municipal treasurer.
The first roadblock in El Remance was put up around 11 a.m. The road in Agua Azul was blocked later that day. A municipal crew in a garbage truck arrived just before 7 p.m., and the road was cleared once the crews began collecting the rubbish.
The complaints go well beyond those two areas. On November 1st, residents on streets Brasil and Honduras in 5 de Diciembre reported five days without pickup. Four days later, residents in Lomas del Coapinole burned their uncollected garbage, with complaints about the smoke.
The city resumed garbage collection on April 1 after early termination of its contract with Red Ambiental. In May, City Hall said service would return to normal within 48 hours. In June, Mayor Luis Ernesto Munguía González gave the city about 45 days to get service running again. By September, residents still reported missed pickups and erratic routes.
Domínguez said he’d promised residents in one area that crews would come on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to take all the stuff that had piled up. He gave no indication as to when the other nine trucks would be back in service.
In El Remance, the city dispatched a pickup from its coastal zone office to assist with the backlog. Residents told us the crews only collected at one point and made it clear they will shut down the entire Libramiento if normal service doesn’t resume.
