Haiti - Environment : The town hall forced to suspend the garbage collection in Port-au-Prince
In a note, the Town Hall of Port-au-Prince informs residents of the commune that the trucks are no longer able to perform the garbage collection as usual due to the closure of the landfill of Truitier.
Youri Chevry, the Mayor of Port-au-Prince, does not know why the officials of the Metropolitan Solid Waste Collection Service (SMCRS) made the decision to ban Port-au-Prince from unloading garbage for more than a week "[ ...] our trucks are filled with garbage but we have nowhere to discharge them [...] without discharge the Town Hall can not clean the city."
"The Communal Administration of Port-au-Prince asks the people to be patient, pending the reopening of Truitier. It offers her apologies for the inconvenience caused by this situation and promises to follow up with the authorities concerned to solve this problem as soon as possible...
The Truitier landfill of 250 hectares, located in the commune of Cité Soleil, 5km north of the center of the capital, is the only public landfill serving the agglomeration of Port-au-Prince comprising no less than seven communes. Every day the average amount of waste produced by Port-au-Prince is estimated at 6,000 m3 of which only 30% is collected (for lack of resources), the rest ending up in the gullies and streets of the capital ...
