How garbage collectors are pushed to the margins

Changing the policy in which the garbage is collected by private entities for a high fee, robs the poor of a source of livelihood and food and causes recyclable materials to overflow landfills

Humanity produces more and more garbage that causes for sanitation problems and environmental damage.

For example, a nuisance from the garbage dump of Hiria that was eliminated and was for the park. In contrast, Eilat's landfill and its surroundings are not fenced and properly maintained and therefore serve as a buffet for wild animals.

While local and national authorities try to find solutions, Household garbage accumulates and fills landfills at an ever-increasing speed. In many countries the solutions are expensive and therefore integrated into the activities of companies Private industries that take the place of the traditional garbage collectors.
Independent collections exist mainly in less developed countries, who in the course of their work separated, collected and sold materials that could be distributed and thus added a little income. It is estimated that in many countries where the garbage is collected by collectors, it is directed to recycling Between 20% and 50% of all garbage collected.

Researchers who follow the work of the independent collections and see that their work is going wrong, have established several organizations to protect their rights.

The researchers published a map which indicates the places where frictions related to recycling arose. The map was "dressed" onAtlas of Environmental Justice" https://ejatlas.org and where you can see the places throughout Africa, Asia, and South America (and also in our immediate surroundings), where collections are fighting for their rights. The fight is for economic rights as well as social and environmental rights.

Surveys show that in Western countries every citizen throws away between 30 kg and 120 kg of food per year, a situation that led to an environmental movement of collecting discarded food to prevent waste. This also happens in special homes that feed the poor with expired food. In developing countries, garbage is collected by the poor who use up the food and at the same time collect materials for recycling. Changing the policy in which the garbage is collected by private entities for a high fee, robs the poor of a source of livelihood and food and causes recyclable materials to overflow landfills.

In developing countries there is About 20 million private and poor people are engaged in recycling.

We also have people rummaging through garbage containers to collect bottles, copper and more. The collections provide a free environmental service to society, sometimes without evaluation. The collections organizations give them a voice and even get a position in local councils.

Privatizing garbage collection and handing it over to companies or local councils means that the public bears the costs but also allows for efficient and sometimes more environmentally friendly disposal, for example, the garbage is sent to be burned in furnaces for the purpose of generating electricity when the result of the burning is ash that can be used in infrastructure such as roads and more (we have not yet Learned the "patent" and it's a shame). The burning in facilities that minimize the emission of pollutants so that almost all parties benefit,
The first furnace in Africa was established in 2018 in Ethiopia.
But research shows that sometimes Recycling by collections is better than burning For the environment and for the collections alike, which perhaps justifies the civil organizations in different countries against the fire.

It turns out that commercial corporations show more and more interest in trash as a resource, which causes more friction that turns violent between the collectors and the corporations. In Johannesburg, Ghana, and neighboring Egypt, closing problematic landfills has led to the displacement of the environmental problem but not its elimination.

There are places where, in the name of innovation, hygiene and beauty have been placed Smart containers against the poor  which do not allow the collectors access and thus the poor of the city are harmed. More and more collections are being organized to fight innovations that deprive them of a source of livelihood and in the opinion of many those innovations cause indirect damage to the environment. Although there are countries where the recognition of the contribution of the collections is great, the transfer of the treatment of garbage in most places pushes them to the margins and to difficult and poor living conditions.

Here:
There are scavengers who collect materials for recycling and sometimes food as well, in places where no hidden containers have been placed. There is garbage treatment that starts in an orderly manner with environmental intentions, but in most cases the distance between the intentions and reality is long. Contents of recycling containers end up in landfills which are a source of pollution and a death trap for wildlife.
Construction waste is crowding disposal lots instead of being recycled using known and accepted methods, so there are piles of tires, lumps of metal and many more materials that can be recycled. It is appropriate that in our tiny country there should be proper, efficient and environmental treatment for all types of garbage and waste, it is appropriate that garbage and waste be a resource and not a nuisance...

Finally, a linguistic clarification:
Since again and again I hear speakers who confuse garbage with manure, it is worth learning and internalizing that garbage or waste (garbage, rubbish) is not manure (Dung), since manure is an organic product that is used to fertilize fields in agriculture. Organic waste can be turned into compost to be used as manure. For the rest of what we call garbage in the vernacular, it means trash or waste.