Video shows workers sweeping Water Festival trash directly into Tonle Sap

[geovalin]

Sen David and Yesenia Amaro

 

Amid public criticism of fast-accumulating litter during the Water Festival, a video circulated on social media yesterday took the outcry to a new pitch, showing exactly how some cleaning crews were dealing with the problem – by sweeping the trash directly into the Tonle Sap river.

 

Cintri Cambodia Ltd – which contracts with the capital for waste management – City Hall representatives and Phnom Penh’s Department of Public Works all declined to take responsibility for the workers in the video and brushed off the issue, saying it wasn’t a serious issue.

 

While difficult to distinguish any identifying uniforms in the video that might show who employed the workers, the Department of Public Works posted photos on its Facebook page of what appeared to be its own personnel also sweeping trash into the river.

 

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[foxboy]

I see this all the time in Pattaya.. everything thrown in the road or swept down the drains, and they wonder why it floods come rainy season