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- Subject: News & views : To looking forward t
- From: myanmar99@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:34:00
Subject: News & views : To looking forward to the cleaner, greener Yangon
To looking forward to the cleaner, greener Yangon
( SOURCE: News and views from Myanmar ,Vol-1 ,No-36 )
Yangon city is growing rapidly with 35 townships and its population reached
5.95 million. According to the statistic research, the garbage disposed by
one person per day was 1.6 pounds - less than 1 kg.
The highest amount of garbage is produced by market places, it is found -
one market places produces 5 - ton garbage on average daily.
In the past, there were only two legal garbage dumps in Yangon city and
until 1988, the Yangon City Development Committee had 60 garbage collecting
trucks - now, there are 396 trucks in working schedule. The average amount
of garbage collected per day in Yangon is 3714.286 tons. With the increase
of city population, it is necessary to build garbage recycling centres. In
that way, not only the garbage would be disposed of, but also the
by-product from the process - the gas, for instance, could be useful for
the community.
It is learnt that the YCDC spent 544.299 million kyats in keeping the city
clean and pleasant in 1998-99 and the sanitation tax collected for the same
year was 222.54 million kyats. However, the responsibility to keep Yangon
clean and green laid on both YCDC and the city residents - for the garbage
should best be disposed of at designated places or when the garbage
collecting trucks came to collect them. Sometimes, penalty is needed to
discipline people not to waver from the duties of a good citizen. Therefore,
the people of Yangon should help make the task of YCDC easier by keeping
their household clean, their garbage systematically disposed of and above
all, being model citizens.
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