Monday, March 26, 2018
Puerto Rico’s Trash Removal: A Big Mess Growing Bigger
This is not a pretty Caribbean island story...
At Spectator.org, Brian McNicoll recently wrote about Puerto Rico and it's issues:
"Contractors, like the now-notorious Whitefish, were hired for jobs for which they were unprepared or unqualified. Supplies have gone to rot in warehouses and in shipping containers on the island. Power remains out for more than a quarter of the population.
But, unfortunately, for years Puerto Rico has had problems with even the most basic of services, such as disposing of its trash. Of its 27 landfills, 20 do not meet federal standards. Many are little more than open sewers.
They don’t restrict access, which means everything from tomatoes to toilets to toxics can be dumped. There is no plastic liner between the waste and the ground, which allows pollution to sink into the water table. Privately operated landfills tend to operate near federal standards, but the public-run facilities lag far behind. And no one is around to do anything about it."
