Bucharest street suffocated by 300 tonnes of trash

Bucharest’s ugliest and dirtiest neighborhood, Ferentari in South – Western capital, seems to deserve its notoriety entirely. It took 30 garbage collection workers a whole day of work to pick up the 300 tonnes of trash laying on a single street in the neighborhood. They needed 15 garbage collection equipment to finish the spring cleanup. Employees from the Bucharest City Hall and from Romprest sanitation company worked for hours to clean up a single street between the derelict blocks in Ferentari yesterday- the Aleea Livezilor street. Pest control was to follow today. Authorities say people throw garbage directly out their windows and balconies. So the municipality will most likely have to organize another cleanup operation soon. Old clothes, household waste, plastic bags, old furniture are constantly left on the street. There are 46 blocks in the area, which host some 100,000 people, most of whom poor, and living in unhealthy conditions, according to Digi24.ro. “They should keep the streets clean and store garbage in these containers we installed near the blocks, but unfortunately they don’t do it. They simply throw garbage out the window, on the sidewalk,” said Magdalena Iuga, deputy director with the Public Utilities Director of the Bucharest City Hall, quoted by Digi24.ro. The neighborhood is also one of the least safe in Bucharest, so authorities focus more on tackling criminality in the area, rather than imposing fines for throwing garbage out the window. editor@romania-insider.com (photo source: Freeimages.com)