Community Services

More than 10 days without garbage collection, and the head of the PCC in Ciego de Ávila blames the embargo

Videos show the streets of Havana overflowing with filth: garbage is engulfing the "City of Wonders."

Government acknowledges garbage issues while warning of rising dengue cases in Isla de la Juventud

Playa Ancón, in Trinidad, showcases a "sea of trash" at the end of the summer season

"How long will the incompetence in Artemisa last?" A street buried in garbage outrages the residents

Los Sitios, another neighborhood in Havana caught between garbage and neglect

Dump in the heart of Camagüey

Mechanical cranes destroyed garbage deposits, and the Matanzas area was left without collection points

Guantánamo accumulates micro and megadumps while the province remains under Epidemiological Alert

Cubans request a solution in Cárdenas: "The garbage is piling up just a few meters from the house."

"They have turned this country into a tremendous mess": video shows the area around Cuatro Caminos flooded with putrid water

A huge garbage dump next to a primary school in Holguín has been reported

Full of trash: This is what La Boca beach in Camagüey looks like

"Garbage mafias in Cuba? Testimonies point to clans, violence, and an organized business in the landfills."

From public service to private business: a small and medium-sized enterprise will charge 100 CUP for trash collection in Isla de la Juventud

The garbage takes over Las Tunas and forces the search for solutions in the private sector

The benches in Plaza de Marte in Santiago de Cuba are being restored, but the question is how long they will last

Garbage blocks a street in Holguín and threatens food sales stalls

"Nothing is impossible": PCC Secretary in Plaza rivals Díaz-Canel's "utopia"

In photos: Rivers and bay of Matanzas overflowing with trash

Old Havana can't stay clean for even two hours due to the uncontrolled waste

Trillo Park, amidst waste and worms: neighbors report garbage overflow in Central Havana

Trash overflows in Trillo Park in Central Havana, and residents are outraged: “With the stench and the worms, where are we going to end up?”

"If Eusebio Leal were to come back to life, he would die again," lament Cubans as trash devours the work of the historian in Old Havana

The CDR monitor the blocks... but not the mountain of trash that burns next to their headquarters in Vedado

Black water, garbage, and neglect: this is how the La Marina neighborhood in Matanzas survives

The collapse on Monte Street in the Cuban capital: the corner of El Cadete today smells of neglect and garbage

Fire at the Camagüey garbage dump alarms residents due to authorities' inaction

"Neither Afghanistan nor Ukraine": one of the main access routes to Holguín resembles a war zone due to a burning trash dump

Burning garbage dumps turn neighborhoods in Holguín into a health trap

The Yayabo River, a symbol of Sancti Spíritus, is drowning in garbage and the inaction of the authorities

The Hill has the key... and also a swamp of waste in the heart of the Cuban capital

Enormous garbage dump raises concern in Guantánamo: "Rats are entering homes and the stench won't let us live."

Havana normalizes the unsanitary: food sales amidst accumulated garbage in the streets

Rivers turned into dumps: garbage worsens flooding in the city of Holguín

Another dump on the way: the accumulation of garbage is growing in front of the children's park in Holguín

The streets of the revolutionaries: mountains of garbage, risk of epidemics, and neglect in the heart of Havana

Guantánamo turns to porters and animal traction to tackle the waste crisis

Rigoberto Ferrera is looking for the recipe that Cubans need the most

A mountain of trash blocks an intersection in Centro Habana as fears of epidemics rise in the summer

Minsap alerts about a possible dengue epidemic as trash, leaks, and power outages contribute to the proliferation of mosquitoes

A month without garbage collection in Cienfuegos while authorities talk about preventing hepatitis

Trash and unsanitary hotspots are gaining ground in the "Cradle of Cuban Nationality."

Catholic Church of Santiago de Cuba issues a plea to the government: "The situation has become unsustainable."

Residents of the Casino Deportivo organize their own trash collection due to the collapse of public services

“Communal, please!”: a garbage dump expands next to a children's center in the heart of Vedado

Drinking water is lost beneath a landfill in Havana following an alleged break caused by heavy machinery

"Holguín hurts": garbage, landfills, and neglect consume what was once the cleanest city in Cuba

"We owe a debt to the city": Authorities admit collapse in garbage collection in Matanzas

In Matanzas, they do not collect the garbage, but they are joining the Cuba Recicla campaign

The streets of the revolutionaries remain buried in trash: viral video captures the neglect in a central area of Havana

“They took my father's planter”: warnings about looting in the Pinar cemetery

A neighbor in Central Havana accuses the government and state entities of "counter-revolution" after leaving a block without electricity, water, and elevators

From playground to dump: this is how Los Caballitos, a symbol of childhood in Holguín, ended up

Garbage trucks and heavy machinery pose a risk to the Albear canal and the water supply for hundreds of thousands of Havana residents

Residents of Santiago de Cuba report a bedbug infestation and a micro-dump in the Sorribe neighborhood

Garbage and debris block railway lines in Bayamo, endangering human lives

"Signatures are being collected" in Havana, but to pick up the trash, says Rigoberto Ferrera

Garbage bins are burning in Holguín: the once "cleanest city in Cuba" breathes toxic smoke every night

"Havana smells like burning garbage": the harsh portrait of the "City of Wonders"