GAM gathered 14000 tons of waste during Eid holiday
21-07-2015 02:46 PM
Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The amount of garbage generated in Amman durinf Eid holiday, leaving trash containers overflowing on the capital’s streets, officials and residents said.
“Waste has increased during Eid by about twofold. Our teams usually collect around 14000 tonnes of garbage during Eid,” 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 has been causing dumpsters to overflow… if the trash makes it into the dumpster in the first place.