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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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