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The music producer Laura Martín Nieto reported that smoke from a garbage dump fire in areas of the Metropolitan Park of Havana is starting to affect the health of the neighbors.
This is the situation that the central area of Puentes Grandes in the Plaza de la Revolución municipality has been facing for several days, after someone had the bright idea of establishing a waste-burning site in the areas of the Metropolitan Park of Havana,” she reported on Facebook this Friday.
Martin Nieto explained that the burning takes place “just 50 meters from the Clinical Surgical Hospital at 26, right in the middle of a heavily populated neighborhood of elderly people and children.”
"Visible respiratory effects are already starting to be felt. Carbon monoxide KILLS. We do not know the health and environmental costs of burning all types of waste. I urge you to share this urgent citizen complaint!" he lamented.
This complaint joins others that report health impacts due to the burning and accumulation of trash in Havana, in the context of a collapse of public services.
A few days ago, in Lawton, neighbors also reported about the burning of waste in the middle of a residential area due to the lack of oil to transport it to landfills.
From Regla, another neighbor described a similar situation: “They were also burning trash at the sandpit. The smoke was so thick that you couldn't see the bay or Havana, and the smell was horrible. They are slowly killing us.”
A resident in Diez de Octubre said that the city is filled with garbage because there is no daily collection. "On top of that, Comunales is adding the creation of an infectious hotspot in its facilities with the emission of smoke and toxic gases, worsening the health conditions of the population in general."
Recently, a complaint sent to CiberCuba accused the municipal government of San Miguel del Padrón of ordering garbage trucks to dump “all the trash” from the municipality in front of a pre-university institution in Havana.
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