A garbage dump catches fire in the Mantilla neighborhood in Havana.

A dumpster, in the middle of a street in the Mantilla neighborhood of Havana, caught fire and caused inconveniences for the local population.

"On Progreso street, between 6 and 7. This is a great danger, especially with the wind there is now," said a neighbor in the Facebook group Somos Mantilla.

The post received numerous comments. One person complained about the amount of trash on the streets of Havana. "There's too much dirt... and filth on the streets. There's a stench everywhere," they said.

Another user reported that if the neighbors themselves do not create the large fires in the trash bins on the streets of the capital, the unsanitary conditions reach their homes.

A study by Cuba Siglo 21 indicated that in the Cuban capital, the government stops collecting the equivalent of three Olympic swimming pools of waste every day.

The city has become an unhealthy hub where street-level dumps promote the proliferation of rats and mosquitoes, which cause diseases such as dengue and leptospirosis.

The situation has reached a point where the neighbors themselves are setting fire to the trash bins. Reports of urban fires are increasing, which become extremely dangerous due to the production of methane gas in these micro-dumps on the streets.