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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The amount of garbage generated in Amman each day has nearly doubled during Ramadan, leaving trash containers overflowing on the capital’s streets, officials and residents said.

“Waste has increased during Ramadan by about twofold. Our teams usually collect around 71000 tonnes of garbage since the beginning of Ramadan,” Omar Arabiyat, director of the Greater Amman Municipality’s (GAM) waste operations and sanitation department.

Amman residents complained that this increase in garbage, which typically begins piling up one hour after iftar, has been causing dumpsters to overflow… if the trash makes it into the dumpster in the first place.

“People place their trash bags on the pavement just outside their houses after iftar, which is unsightly, let alone the stench and how cats tear the bags and scatter the leftover food,” Eman Abdullah, a resident of the Jabal Hussein neighbourhood.