AREQUIPA, Peru – The critical situation of garbage collection on the Island, with Havana as the epicenter, highlights the health insecurity that the country is going through, as reported by the Cuban Observatory of Citizen Audit (OCAC).
Published by the Cuba Siglo 21 ideas laboratory, the report Havana: capital of waste addresses the problem of unhealthiness in the capital.
According to the text, in the city more than 7,600 cubic meters (m3) of garbage accumulate daily in spaces public close to the homes and centers that generated them, which is equivalent to just over three Olympic swimming pools of garbage per day.
In the Cuban capital, on average, only 68% is collected while the rest remains in the streets, generating sources of infection and urban fires due to the production of methane gas.
In the 15 municipalities of Havana, OCAC carried out a field study to verify the dimension of the crisis in waste collection. The results were recorded in the report, along with almost 100 illustrative photos and an interactive map.
Only 40% of the garbage in the capital is recovered for recycling, the publication points out, while the rest of the uncollected waste attracts rodents, mosquitoes and other insects, carriers of diseases such as dengue and leptospirosis, which are very dangerous. to health.
“The Government’s inability to create efficient and sustainable mechanisms, together with ineffective management of foreign investment opportunities and donations received, are some of the causes of the current situation,” noted the OCAC.
Cuban authorities assure that maintaining an effective solid waste collection and processing system in the capital is “an impossible mission,” indicates the Observatory. However, the governments of hundreds of larger, more complex cities full of private businesses and gastronomic services have achieved it.
“As long as the current lack of will to respect the economic rights and freedoms of citizens, move towards a market economy and make foreign investment attractive remains, it is foreseeable that health insecurity will continue to deepen in the short and medium term,” highlights the report.
As part of a working meeting between several ministers and authorities of the Cuban regime, Hernández Pérez acknowledged that, due to the lack of tires, batteries and rims, only 40% of the equipment for waste collection was in operation.
The governor of Havana warned that the volume of waste has had a growing trend in recent years and shared data that shows the incompetence of the Cuban authorities to guarantee the health of their territories.
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2024-04-24 20:32:30
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