The Waste Problem in the City of Les Cayes
- Les Cayes, a city of 74,000, is served by one collection truck and two motorcycles.
- DINEPA, the national water and sanitation authority, is recorded as absent from the city.
- A processing plant sited in a residential area is named as a land-use conflict compounding the problem.
- Distance to the dump site further limits what the existing fleet can move.
This is the local counterpart to the national waste policy presented at the same session, and its value is that it puts numbers on municipal capacity rather than describing it in adjectives. Les Cayes is a city of 74,000 inhabitants. The mairie's collection fleet is one truck and two motorcycles, which the paper states as an incapacity rather than an inventory. DINEPA, the national water and sanitation authority, is recorded as absent. The paper also raises land-use mixing as a compounding factor, with a processing plant sited in residential areas, and the distance to the dump site as a further constraint on what the existing fleet can achieve. Read alongside the companion paper arguing that waste is an urbanization problem, the Les Cayes case shows the other end of the same chain: the city grows and generates tonnage on one side, and on the other a single truck is expected to move it.
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Government of Haiti; Comité Interministériel d'Aménagement du Territoire (CIAT), 2016, The Waste Problem in the City of Les Cayes, http://ciat.gouv.ht/sites/default/files/articles/files/Probl%C3%A9matique%20des%20d%C3%A9chets%20dans%20la%20ville%20des%20Cayes.pdf