The inauguration of Sindh's first engineered sanitary landfill at Jam Chakro is a welcome and long-overdue step towards addressing Karachi's worsening waste disposal problem. The development, alongside four planned garbage transfer stations, deserves recognition. However, it also raises a fundamental question. What good is a modern landfill if much of the city's garbage never reaches it?

Karachi's sanitation crisis begins well before waste arrives at a disposal site. There was a time when municipal workers routinely swept........

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