Looking forward to a cleaner, green

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Subject: Re: Looking forward to a cleaner, greener  (better lit) Yangon  

Dear Okkar:-
At a per person average of 1.6 pounds, the 5.95 million model citizens of
Yangon dispose of 4,760 tons of garbage a day.  But the amount collected by
396 garbage trucks is only 3,714 tons.  Just wondered what happens to the
other thousand tons of garbage a day that goes uncollected.   
Curious

PS:  Enough gas potential there to light up the city for at least a couple
of hours more per day!

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> To looking forward to the cleaner, greener Yangon
> 
>     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.