After the great accumulation of trash that was registered in the first days of 2023 in Santo Domingo Este, the expected transformation announced by the Santo Domingo Este City Council regarding the issue It has shown some improvement, but it still lacks, agree residents of the most populous municipality in the country.
In the expansions of Alma Rosa, Ozama, Los Mina and others, the collection cycle has shown slight progress, while the Mayor’s Office works to self-manage its services with new inclusions of trucks and with the preparations to terminate contracts with several of the collection companies , which in his opinion are the ones that have generated the crisis since the beginning of the mayor’s administration Manuel Jimenez.
“The truth must be said, they have been improving in collecting the trashbut they are not supplying the necessary utensils to the employees, since they pick up the waste with their hands,” explained Mr. Félix Castro, owner of a grocery store in Los Mina.
“If they are buying trucks, they should expedite, because They still need to improve on the service“, explains Leomidis Solano, an employee of a lottery bank in the same sector.
Wingler Ortíz considers that the problem is still latent because people are very disorderly and throw everything out on the streets in an excessive way.
However, the mayor’s office does not shy away from its responsibility and recognizes certain deficiencies, which in its opinion are a matter of time.
“The service has been improving in recent weeks, especially in constituencies 1 and 3, where there were New Year’s problems,” defended the council’s communications officer, Jonathan Liriano.
He added that, in district 2, the service is stable and is under the administration of the City Council.
They bet that when the second fleet of trucks arrives, the service will reach a higher level of efficiency.
At the beginning of this month of January, the municipal government announced that a fleet of 29 trucks will arrive to reinforce constituency 1 made up of the sectors Ensanche Ozama, Las Américas, Alma Rosa, Villa Duarte, Mendoza, Los Mameyes, Villa Faro, La Isabelita, The Trinitarians and The Three Eyes.
The work seeks to improve where the company Danko Group It was awarded by the previous management to manage the waste, but they say it has not done the work as established in the contract.
In a tour carried out this Saturday by Free Daily Cumulus clouds were seen in several places, but truck activity was also witnessed in many of the eastern extensions.
