Sihanoukville facing a trash crisis

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Yesenia Amaro and Kong Meta

 

Sihanoukville officials are scrambling to figure out how they will collect rubbish throughout the city – one of the top tourism destinations in the country – if waste management firm Cintri makes good on a recent threat to halt services on September 14, raising concerns that unmanaged mounds of trash could damage the local economy.

 

Cintri, which has provided waste-collection services in Sihanoukville since 2005, informed officials in a letter dated July 31 that it would suspend its services beginning August 15. It cited numerous problems, such as bad road conditions, profit losses and the lack of a current official contract. It later agreed to extend its services until September 14, said company manager Ith Chenda.

 

Chenda said Cintri faces a slew of problems in Sihanoukville. For example, he said, the dump site is at the end of about 30 kilometres of slippery, steep roads, which have caused some of their trucks to overturn.

 

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[Mavrix]

Friend of mine who just moved from there says the whole place is a tip.

[murraynz]

im  booked to go there end of september--i hope things dont worsen during this time...i have previously been to phnom penh..it actualy makes thailand look clean,by comparison to the rubbish in the streets.

[phycokiller]

1 hour ago, murraynz said:

im  booked to go there end of september--i hope things dont worsen during this time...i have previously been to phnom penh..it actualy makes thailand look clean,by comparison to the rubbish in the streets.

thats because they use the streets as rubbish bins, but it does usually get cleaned once a day.