sanitation services
Municipal waste management
Sanitation services are the systems and workers that handle waste removal and public cleanliness—garbage collection, sewage treatment, street cleaning.
The term often appears in municipal contexts: The city contracts out its sanitation services.
Sanitation workers are the people who collect trash and maintain these systems.
- garbage collectionScheduled waste removal service
- garbage truckVehicle collecting household waste
- portable toiletsMovable standalone restrooms
- public toiletsShared sanitation facilities
- handwashing stationsPlaces to clean hands
street cleaning · septic systems · recycling · sewage treatment · sewer line · nightsoil · composting · waste bin · waste management · curb appeal · water purification · clean water · hazardous waste disposal · incineration · pest control · chlorination · pickup · filtration systems
- sanitationsewage, sewers, cleaning, sewer, disinfecting
- public healthdisease prevention, immunization, disease control, health education, epidemiology
- green techsolar panels, solar power, wind energy, clean energy, wind turbines
- local governmentcity manager, aldermen, city hall, councillors, councillor
sanitation servicesdisease vectors
Organisms spreading pathogens between hosts
contamination · public health crisis · waterborne disease · squalor · pestilence
sanitation servicesfilth
Foul, accumulated matter
pollution · toxic dumping · environmental contamination · urban blight · environmental degradation