The massive trash problem in Karachi is causing acute health problems, both for adults and children. Is there a solution?
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00:00Many times our children are sick, we are sick, our families are sick.
00:15If you do a survey in the whole of Azizabad and find out in every other house,
00:20you will find one or two people sick in every house because of this filth and garbage.
00:25Oxygen is so low, just look at my condition, I feel oxygen is so low.
00:30Secondly, the future of all the children depends on their breathing.
00:36The government should take care of this.
00:47Breathing problems, throat problems, nose issues, all these things happen.
00:52Mosquitoes, especially malaria mosquitoes, have a high incidence of bacteria and viruses.
01:02So this is a big problem.
01:12In Karachi, our generation is about 11,000 to 12,000 tonnes on a daily basis.
01:18After door-to-door collection, the garbage is collected at the dumping point.
01:25From there, it is shipped to the GTS.
01:27On the GTS waybridge, we can check the system to see how much garbage has been dumped there.
01:35After that, we lift it further to the LFS and this is how our mechanism works.
01:40There are excavators who work independently through different communities.
01:49They are not under the control of the government.
01:52The SH has not come forward with a policy.
01:55Because of the lack of awareness, the children at school level do not have any education.
02:01That's why they don't know what will happen to us if we throw garbage.
02:10They don't properly dispose of their industrial waste.
02:25There is a lot of waste that you can recycle but they don't.
02:29There are hospitals.
02:31Hospital wastage needs to be tackled in a different way.
02:36Recycling garbage is also an issue.
02:43The garbage is dumped in upper middle class areas of Karachi.
02:51This is primarily the responsibility of the government and not the citizens.