inefficient waste collection

Public opinion finds the feat of these private operators staggering, as they set up, in a flash and almost surreptitiously, such a lucrative waste collection business (two million centimes in daily revenue) and then disappear into the wild, hardly honouring the harvest sites anymore, even just to see for themselves how their golden business is evolving.No less confusing for the common man is the fact that such a lucrative business has been running exclusively since its inception thanks to equipment graciously offered by the State (a windfall of 6,172,730 dirhams – article 8 of the Management Convention) and staff—99% local—paid almost 100% by the two municipalities (an annual bill of 2,841,910.94 dirhams in 2008 – article 33 of the CPS).Worse, the private operator acts as he pleases, doing only what he wants, ignoring the provisions of the CPS and the delegated management convention, be…