2024-10-16 11:45:00
Photo: RL Hevia
Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
Since the capital of Cuba began its “offensive” against the worrying garbage situation that overflowed the city a month ago, the collection trucks that normally have to circulate are now not seen, it is collected on a larger scale.
Front loaders and large trucks are replacing traditional methods and the question is: at what cost?
According to government authorities in the capital, ministries or organizations serve the municipalities, so we can find tractors for agriculture in Diez de Octubre, construction methods in Arroyo Naranjo or equipment for Hydraulic Resources
“Removing” this equipment from their starting order means, as well as the loss of fuel that is not – and will not be – to move so many vehicles around the city, that they stop functioning in productive tasks.
We therefore assume that there are no construction processes in which front loaders are used for earthworks, nor collections in agriculture in which the trucks of the state company Gelma intervene, nor leaks or problems with the sewage to be solved.
It is easier to justify that the main problem that comes with community action today is that the collection teams have stopped due to a lack of tires, batteries and parts and, therefore, “based on a proposal from the Party and the Government in the territory, quite a few. There is a link between ministries and OSDE with the municipalities and they have allocated part of their equipment to the collection of urban solid waste.”
According to the state media “even with the problems the country has regarding fuel, the allocation for community action is a priority for the Government”; However, basic services are affected.
For example, these teams are spending an average of 1 or 1.2 liters for every cubic meter collected, the same amount that the city government stops allocating to the Provincial Transport Company to start the buses that are not in circulation because for lack of fuel.
IRELAND IN THE “VANGUARD” OF DEFINITELY
A few days ago they were proud of the state press that the Havana municipality of Diez de Octubre “got the formula that was an issue that marked the life of the residents of Havana in recent months.”
A visit from the president was enough to start the cleaning of the main roads regardless of whether the side paths were broken in the process due to the use of methods not authorized for this purpose or the streets where he was going were not. pass remained the same.
But it is not so coincidental that it was this municipality. It was enough for a fed population to close a street, near the corner of Toyo, where it was famous for protests on the 11th of July, so that they came at eleven at night to collect the waste that had been collected for more than two weeks and for the municipality. counted with three loaders and 20 trucks from the Ministry of Agriculture
So why are there some cases and not others? Don’t the people who don’t object have the same problems?
In a few weeks, when the garbage piles up again and the streets are closed, the trucks of the agencies will return to destroy everything in their path, they will mobilize more than 1,200 people from the Ministry of Agriculture, the work will stop, the fuel will stop and it won’t be here until all but bread for today and garbage for tomorrow.
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