Haiti: Debris in Port-au-Prince

Driving through Port-au-Prince at the end of June you see loads of debris on all sides of the street.

The earthquake created approximately 20 million cubic meters (26 million cubic yards) of debris that have to be removed. To put this into perspective: after the Pakistan earthquake in 2005, that number was 2.3 million cubic meters (3 million cubic yards).

If you put all the debris in shipping containers and put them end on end, they would reach from London to Jerusalem or New York to Las Vegas. The majority of Haitians are removing debris from their plots by hand.

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