Cuba is struggling with a US-imposed blockade on fuel shipments, which has led to many crises, including a breakdown in garbage collection in Havana. But a startup is stepping up to collect garbage in one neighborhood, using electric three-wheeled vehicles powered by solar.

Cuba has found itself in the crosshairs of the current squatter in the US White House (who cannot legally hold office in the US), who feels as if causing misery to a populace will somehow make that populace have a more positive opinion of the country causing that misery.

In this case, that misery takes the form of a total blockade on fuel shipments to Cuba imposed this January, regardless of which country those shipments come from.

Cuba has responded by rapidly expanding solar power, with help from China in doing so – another example of the brilliant foreign policy of a total idiot who is pushing basically every country away from the US and towards China.

Given that Cuba was previously reliant on imported oil, the blockade has resulted in a crisis that has hit the country in several ways, including threats to food supply (in a country where this was already a difficulty even before the recent blockade), electricity shortages and great difficulties for Cuba’s famously capable medical system.

But beyond those big headline effects, one of the most visible ways that the fuel blockade has affected Cuban life is in terms of trash collection in Havana, the nation’s capital.

It is not an uncommon sight to find trash piling up (or burning) in the streets, as over half of the city’s fleet of garbage trucks are not currently operational.

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