Battered roads, piles of garbage in Karachi

TURBAT: The litter problem has persisted forever in Karachi. Many tragedies have afflicted the city over the decades such as crime, terrorism and urban blight. The city’s solid waste problem is quite a crisis as it has caused countless issues that include health. Meanwhile, mounds of garbage continue to pile up everywhere.

The city’s residents want to know whether the rulers have any substantive plans to combat the garbage menace. While some of it is burnt in bonfires that unleash a vile black cloud that chokes anyone who walks by, there is no further action taken of the disposed trash once burned. It is unclear how the city waste is ultimately supposed to be disposed of. Waste disposal and treatment is a whole process, from garbage generation to disposal, it must be addressed in a systematic way.

I want to draw the provincial government’s and municipal authorities’ attention towards creating a cleaner city. They have an obligation to design proper waste disposal systems, so that their salaries can be justified.

Shahjan Muneer

Published in The Express Tribune, August 17^th, 2016.

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