The director of Haiti's National Solid Waste Management Service (SNGRS), Daril Balthazar, led a garbage collection operation in Pétion-Ville on Monday, November 2, HaitiLibre reported.

During the operation he announced that a national program to strengthen waste management across Haiti would be launched soon, with a focus on recycling and on recovering materials that can be reused.

The report did not give a date, a budget or the communes the program would reach first.