How garbage affect the population of mejicanos?

Fieldwork
How garbage affect directly the population in Mexican’s city and its consequences?

Introduction

From many years ago, San Salvador has been affected by many problems. One of the most notorious is the big problem of the garbage; this phenomenon is the result of bad practices of clean and disposal waste. The garbage topic is a real problem for everyone and it is important tofind out who are the responsible and what the possible triggers are. The present report offer a variety of opinions of the same people that live everyday, suffering the consequences and diseases generated by garbage.
The sample of this fieldwork has been taken from the city of Mejicanos and its citizens, according with de different areas such as neighborhood, colonies, markets and spaceswere the garbage is visible for everyone.

Objetives

a) Determinate the causes of the accumulation of waste.
b) Raise public awareness of the risk generated by trash.
c) Provide advices and possible solutions to avoid pollution in order to prevent diseases.

THE GARBAGE POROBLEM
  The contamination caused by solid waste, industrial residues and the domestic sewage has beenone of the world’s main environmental problems. In El Salvador, this problem can be clearly identified in San Salvador’s metropolitan area, where a third part of the population and most of the country’s industries are concentrated. In San Salvador’s metropolitan area only 60% of the total garbage is collected, and it does not receive any kind of treatment, just like the domestic sewage.
Inaddition, only 9% of the industries treat their residues. This is the context where different options for the garbage that is generated in San Salvador have been discussed, starting with an incinerator plant installed during the 20’s, passing by the practice of throwing the garbage out in the open (which is still an every day practice), the former mayor’s, Mario Valiente (1994-1997), proposal of anincinerator plant, and ending with the sanitary filling and the transference and recycling plant, proposed and implemented by the administration of the present mayor, Norman Quijano.
However, that situation cannot cover up the fact that independently from the implementation of the solid waste disposal project, the government and the Salvadoran society must fight the garbage problem fromits roots, that is, promoting a reduction of the amount of waste through three fundamental strategies: to reduce the production of waste, recycling, and reuse everything that can be reused. The solid waste’s adequate disposal is important and urgent, however it cannot be forgotten that it does not attack the causes that generate the problem. For that reason, the central government should formulateand implement viable solutions to face this challenge.

IDENTIFING THE PROBLEM

In the city of San Salvador the garbage problem is becoming more difficult to control. Daily, large amounts of waste that municipal service fails to collect because they do not have enough garbage trucks to give full coverage to the city. The frequency of garbage collection is very low, one to threetimes a week, so that wastes build up and never manage to eradicate the garbage scattered everywhere. Also the service provided by municipal sweepers is insufficient because there is very little staffing.
On the other hand, the Salvadoran culture has not cleaning it throws away anywhere. It is evident in the streets, that, people throw garbage from vehicles, and buses. Pedestrians throw foodscraps, cigarette butts, empty bags, and anything anywhere. Unfortunately the populations do not coperate depositing the trash in proper places.
This problem is being caused by many deficiencies in the system. The problem is evident, there are no streets, pedestrian zones and parks, containers installed in strategic locations to deposit the garbage that most pedestrian uses to throw...