Ecobreves – HONDURAS: A New Way to Collect Trash

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TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 15 2010 (IPS) - The municipal government of the southern Honduran city of Choluteca decided to collect garbage using horse-drawn carts in the neighborhoods not served by the sanitation service. This approach “does not pollute the environment with the emissions of the garbage trucks, and has helped generate enthusiasm among residents to help the drivers in cleaning up their neighborhoods,” Mayor Quintín Soriano told Tierramérica.

Ninety cart drivers collect the solid waste and separate it at the incinerator that services this city of 150,000 people. The garbage truck system serves only half of the urban population.