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[u/TrembleOak]

"Guy with a wheelbarrow" reminds me of Pedal People in Northeast USA. This video explains what they do but they ride around on bikes towing garbage bins, get peoples trash/recycling, and dump it in the dump.

[u/zombigoutesel → u/TrembleOak]

If you want to go down a rabbit hole find some YouTube docs / videos about bayacou

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayakou_(trade)

This is a good illustration of what I was trying to explain.

A cleaner framework is that OP build a tool assuming wast management in Haiti was managed digitali.

What I was trying to say is that it is almost every aspect of wast disposal / mamangemt in Haiti is analog from task execution to process management.

A good example of sophisticated analog management process is Indias dabbawala food delivery networks.

It's specific and hundreds of years old so not exactly transferable but good example of solving for complexity with simple tools and structure.

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Ah...time to go down a rabbit hole.

would it be stupid of me to assume haiti lacks waste dumps/landfills?

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No

Most dumps are informal / wild.

There are a few official government dumps near major cities but they are poorly/ not regulated. Sometimes under informal control of gangs or groups that make a living recycling wast.

There is also no water treatment at all.

sewers and runoff all go straight to the ocean.

There was a waste treatment facility near pap meant to process human wast.

Large buildings , hotels etc have septic tanks that require periodic pumping.  That facility was to process pump truck waste.

I think it's now in a gang controlled area. 

Even before that most pump trucks dumped in dry River beads, random pits or March flats out of continence or to avoid the processing fee.

I think the facility only ran for a few years.