Africa-Press – Mozambique. Maputo Municipal Council’s 160 million meticais debt (around US$2.5 million) to the companies contracted to collect solid waste in the city is affecting the provision of the service, generating filth in the country’s capital.
Overflowing waste containers can be seen all over the arteries of the country’s capital. The city’s aesthetics have been damaged by plastic bags, boxes, black water and other waste that create an unpleasant appearance and endangers the health of residents.
A ‘Notícias’ survey of Avenidas de Moçambique, Lurdes Mutola and Julius Nyerere, which give access to the neighbourhoods of Jardim, George Dimitrov, Malhazine, Magoanine, Hulene, Ferroviário and others, reveals a worrying scenario.
Vehicles are forced to drive round piles of rubbish on the road, while passers-by and vendors share space with rubbish and murky waters, a favourable environment for the proliferation of insects and rodents, the main vectors of diseases such as diarrhoea, malaria and cholera.
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