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Trash and Standing Water

What can be done to eliminate uncollected waste andstanding water where Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes breed?

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Trash and containers fill with standing water where mosquitoes breed. The goal of this session is to identify innovative and effective methods to prevent waste accumulation and water deposits from becoming more sources of breeding sites

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION

The problems have been fleshed out into a briefing designed to describe the root causes of the problem, current approaches in different countries, and lessons learned from other domains.

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RECOMMENDATIONS

Crowdsource waste removal

Involve communities in locating and removing litter

Timeframe
Resources: Some Investment ($10k-$100k)
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Resource Offset: This is low to no cost with only a small outlay for coordination and significant potential for savings in sanitation costs

Contacts

Jeff Kirschner, Litterati, Daniel Lombrana, Crowdcrafting

Conduct drone-based garbage surveillance

Use drones to identify and map areas with accumulated trash

Timeframe
Resources: Some Investment ($10k-$100k)
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Resource Offset: This requires an investment in hardware. But money can be saved by sharing the use of surveillance drones designed for other purposes

Contacts

Joe Eyerman, RTI international

Establish public-private partnerships with manufacturers

Commit to private-public partnerships (PPP’s) with manufacturers to reduce trash accumulation

Timeframe
Resources: Some Investment ($10k-$100k)
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Resource Offset: The costs of container remediation are borne by the private sector

Contacts

Dr. Graham Alabaster, World Health Organization

Adopt trash coll. adaptive vehicles

Collect trash in hard-to-reach areas using adaptive vehicles

Timeframe
Resources: Moderate Investment ($100k-$500k)
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Resource Offset: Cost of removing trash using alternative vehicles could be offset through use of those tax revenues used to pay for trash collection; this collection could also be done by the communities themselves, with communities earning revenues by selling recyclables to recycling companies

Contacts

Dr. Graham Alabaster, World Health Organization