Tucson’s Environmental Services director may have just resigned — and the city’s own website hasn’t caught up yet. According to multiple sources inside city government, Carlos de la Torre, the man who ran trash collection, code enforcement, and the “Los Reales Sustainability Campus” rebrand, is out as of Friday. What isn’t public yet is why.
đź“‹ Carlos de la Torre Reportedly Resigns as Tucson Environmental Services Director
by Three Sonorans
At Los Reales, Tucson’s trash trucks roll in every day of the week, kicking up dust over a stretch of desert on the city’s southeast side that officials have spent years trying to rebrand into something more palatable than a landfill. The city now calls it a “sustainability campus.” The waste doesn’t know the difference.
One of the officials who spent years managing that contradiction appears to be gone as of Friday…