The Ayuntamiento of the National District (ADN) seeks to encourage cooperation from residents to make garbage collection much more efficient. This news comes in a press release from Mayor David Collado the Mayor, who explains he hopes to instill civic pride in the city, by launching the “I am Santo Domingo” campaign.
The mayor says they are trying to create sensitivity among city residents so that garbage is taken out at a certain hour, according to a system of routes and frequencies that have been established for each sector. The plan calls for civic and environmental education as part of the overall plan of municipal management.
Collado said that they are trying to overcome the habit of people taking out garbage at any hour of the day or night that obliges the city government to send trucks 304 times a day to keep the city clean. He says the situation is terribly inefficient and financially unsustainable.
The young mayor said that for the initial phase of this project, which includes a series of visits house by house throughout the National District on 8 and 9 September 2018, the city government is counting on the collaboration of the nation’s print media to strengthen this effort and help create a social response of commitment with cleaning up the city. He noted that his efforts have received the support of hundreds of community, social, business and academic entities throughout the nation’s capital.
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El Nacional
30 August 2018
