Why can the waste in the so-called informal settlement area's not be removed safely and cheaply without massive payouts to huge waste removal companies? I know that it can be done, because I have done this, successfully at one time in my life! However, I was small, neither could or would pay bribes and was rather smartly ousted by the municipality (with the assistance of one of the larger companies methinks) at a time when I could not put up fight. I got sick & had to spend time fighting to get better. There is no need for large expensive trucks to go into the informal area's for hours on a daily basis – mainly because they cannot get into the area's successfully anyway and because the tiny streets cannot accept such large vehicles. We need only hand out black bags to the people who live there and pay them an amount of money to bring all the bags to a central collection point. Since most of them are out of work anyway, the place will be cleaned up in a jiffy and the compactor truck can go to one point and collect the bags, saving diesel, oil, manpower and man hours. The snag here, though, is that there is very little room for bribery and the fat-cats in the municipalities as well as the large waste removing companies won't be able to line their pockets anymore because they will be paying the inhabitants of those areas. It would have to be done by a smaller company, with tiny overheads and dedicated staff. My goodness, we will be saving money for the municipalities, creating some tiny income for the impoverished residents and doing an excellent job at the same time! Sad though, that this idea will not take root unless someone, somewhere puts their foot down. C'mon Godzilla – here's one for you!
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