Waste Collection and Street
Sweeping
- The waste collection service is strugglingto keep the city
clean.
- Not all of the city is covered by the collection service.
- Waste is accumulating in streets, squatter settlements and
blocking drains to become a public health concern.
- Despite low levels of service, costs are high and form a large
share of municipal budget.
- Quantities of solid waste are growing faster than the city's
ability to cope with it.
Waste Disposal
- Current disposal is by dumping.
- Existing dumpsites are a concern for political, environmental,
public health and safety reasons.
- Finding new sites is becoming more difficult due to land
shortages and opposition.
- You are told that sanitary landfill is the best way forward but
it seems expensive and people object to having sites near them.
- Many companies claim to have solutions to waste disposal
problems but you do not know who to believe
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