Author Name: Carribean Channel, Cuba TV.
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Inefficiency in the collection of garbage
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That Havana can stand no more, is a recurrent expression with the subject of the garbage over these days in the capital. The press has reflected so and it has been subject of analysis to the highest level of the Cuban Government.

New strategies have been planned, new reports have been presented but the streets are saying that urgent actions should be taken right away.

On one hand the lack of equipment for the collection. It only exists half of the collector trucks and not all of them function at the same time due to breaks.

We have seen in the meetings of the governmental groups of support to the capital, headed every month by the President of our country, the call made to the other organisms of the central administration of state to collaborate with the gathering.

For you to have an idea, this city generates every day about 25 thousand cubic meters of solid wastes and the very criticized Provincial Enterprise of Communal Services, with all the limitations of resources is not enough to sanitize a city of almost 3 million inhabitants.

I do not pretend to justify that several times are inefficient, that they leave the containers thrown and broken, that not all of the garbage is taken away and they break the curves and sidewalks with their mechanized pales.

The capital needs from an impulse and a planning and other entities whose workers also live in this capital, they have the duty to pass from the commitments in meetings to the real cooperation. Many enterprises dump their debris in corners of neighborhoods and do not make the contract with communal for an organized collection.

If we talk about containers I can tell you that a ministerial report said the loss this year of 2000 recipients, 371 have been burned, most of the cases by social indiscipline and persist the stealing of the wheels.

A new modality??? Many enterprises takes the right to enter the containers to the backyard of their houses and take them out in the nights for the truck to take out the wastes… each of these containers cost to the country between 200 and 500 euros.

And it could not be left in this comment the call to the responsibility of every neighbor. Not in every zone happens the same, but in many places is a lot easier to launch a bag of garbage from the heights of a building than going down and placing it in a container.

This is not a new subject, in several occasions the situation improves but while lowering the guard, Havana is filled again with garbage in every corner. It is true that there are clean ways, the prioritized ones but in the inner part of communities everything remains the same.

The hygiene sanitary situation is one of the main challenges to face by the capital government. But I repeat, there are many organisms with the necessary resources to already pass from words to facts.

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