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Acre is among the Brazilian states with lower coverage of garbage collection. According to data from PNAD Continuous 2024, released by IBGE on Friday (22), only 68.4% of the state’s households had the garbage collected directly by cleaning service.
The research shows that the service is more present in cities: in urban areas, 83.4/Photo: Reproduction
The percentage is the second lowest in the country, behind only Maranhão (64.3%). Despite its low ranking position, the state showed improvement compared to 2016, when the direct collection rate was 65.9%.
The survey shows that the service is more present in cities: in urban areas, 83.4% of households have regularly collected garbage.
In rural areas, the reality is quite different. Only 8%of homes have direct collection, while most still turn to waste burning (74%) or discarding cleaning buckets (8.7%).
