The Politics of Garbage: Havana Vs. New York

By David Manney

It doesn’t matter where you live, garbage rots the same everywhere. Flies could give a zzzzpt about ideology, and rats aren’t checking voter rolls. Rot smells the same whether it’s rising from Manhattan or Havana.

But the deeper story unfolds: that rot varies by zip code.

Havana’s trucks run on fumes

Havana, Cuba’s garbage problem has reached crisis levels; only 44 of the city’s 106 garbage trucks are working, because fuel shortages have sidelined the rest, despite the piles of cardboard, plastic bottles, food scraps, and torn bags sitting in neighborhoods for more than ten days at a time…

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