Dumpster Mania-Puerto Plata

HOWMAR · #1 10-21-2005, 02:32 PM

What's the story in Puerto Plata?
Anybody driving will notice the hunderds of brand new garbage dumpsters placed on the main roads, about every 50-100 feet in some areas. Literally, hundreds of dumpsters. (Literally, no pun intended.)
Questions that come to mind:

Is there equipment to empty all these dumpsters?
Where did the money come from to buy all these dumpsters? Who got the contract? How much was pocketed?
When will the first car vs. dumpster accident occur?
How many of these dumpsters will be appropriated as home additions or sheds?
Couldn't the money spent on these dumpsters have been better spent elsewhere?

Never mind, just business as usual in the DR.

JDJones · #2 10-21-2005, 03:04 PM

My favorite is still the garbage trucks in Santo Domingo. There are quite a few locations where trash is picked up in small trucks, then transferred to the large "compression" trucks at stratigic locations around town, rather that just driving the small truck to the dump. So, garbage in bags is handled two, maybe three times before it gets to the dump, where it is gone through again by little kids with their parents, that make a living off the things other people throw away.

Keith R · #3 10-21-2005, 03:07 PM

You mean this one from La Vega (see pic below)? Not sure how well this system will work in the DR

, but it significantly improved the litter problem in Montevideo, Uruguay...

HOWMAR · #4 10-21-2005, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Keith R

You mean this one from La Vega (see pic below)? Not sure how well this system will work in the DR

, but it significantly improved the litter problem in Montevideo, Uruguay...

That's it.

planner · #5 10-21-2005, 03:13 PM

There was a place just outside sosua with hundreds of them sitting there. I wonder if that is where they came from

I too wonder how they will be emptied? It takes a special attachment on a garbage truck!

We shall see how many disappear too!

HOWMAR · #6 10-21-2005, 03:19 PM

I think I saw one already with illegal electric and cable hookups.

Criss Colon · #7 10-21-2005, 03:25 PM

I was ridding with "Escott" when we passed a vacant lot on the highway between Puerto Plata an Sosua filled with several hundred new,but "overgrown with weeds" dumpsters.Looks like they took them out of the lot and onto the streets.These dumpsters were tried in Santo Domingo about two years ago without success! They were fine for a couple of months,but then "Dominicanismo" set in! The special trucks needed to lift and dump the containers completely destroyed all the containers.Those not destroyed by the trucks were demolished along all the streets of the city of Santo Domingo.I doubt there are any left today on the South Side of the Island!
But THAT is not the purpose of the dumpsters/trucks in the first place now is it??? The real purpose behind this,and all the other stupid goverment projects,is to bid the contract,buy or build the project,and steal the money by kickbacks/commisions/and "My brother-in-law's construction company built it"!

So was the "Project" a "Success" or not??? You decide!

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Keith R · #8 10-21-2005, 04:37 PM

oh, it wouldn't surprise me if they were bought without the trucks to empty them with. I've seen too many official visits by Dominican officials to Italy or Spain or even France with declarations of having just purchased this or that magical recycling technology that will solve all the DR's waste problems. If they arrive on Dominican soil at all, they often are not deployed, not deployed properly, are found not to fit the Dominican situation after all (this is always found out after the checks are already cashed, of course), or not properly maintained. Upshot is, they become more expensive rusted hulks....

But as I said, other municipalities in Latin America have made the system work, so it's not "a Latin thing." It can done. In fact, CC, you told me over the phone one time of how it was made to work in your own neighborhood. Care to share that with the board? Maybe if the entire system was designed with your neighborhood example in mind, it might work in SD too someday

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LarrySpencer · #9 10-21-2005, 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JDJones

My favorite is still the garbage trucks in Santo Domingo. There are quite a few locations where trash is picked up in small trucks, then transferred to the large "compression" trucks at stratigic locations around town, rather that just driving the small truck to the dump. So, garbage in bags is handled two, maybe three times before it gets to the dump, where it is gone through again by little kids with their parents, that make a living off the things other people throw away.

Ain't recycling grand?

HOWMAR · #10 10-24-2005, 03:45 PM

Well, one week into this glorious public works project, it is indeed Dominican business as usual. Most dumpsters have yet to be emptied (in fact, I don't know if any have been emptied). Many are overflowing with garbage, which is spewing into the streets. But, the rats are happy. Both the rodent type getting fat on the garbage and the human type getting fat on the dumpster contract.