Six-year-old Sumair Khan searches through mounds of garbage everyday that he picks up from houses and then unloads at a nearby garbage dump. Until the garbage reaches landfill sites, the daily pickers of garbage from door to door pay monthly or weekly charges to the middleman to let them pick garbage without any hurdle. However in Pakistan, people keep asking for funds to collect garbage because there is no chain in place that follows after garbage collection to resolve the issue of waste production in big cities”. “How can one let a city of 20 million people turn into a garbage dump? “We are picking 16,000 tons a month from Central but still we cannot lessen the difference between the garbage produced and the garbage picked,” said Dharejo.

Source: The Express Tribune February 21, 2021 07:29 UTC