A US$623,480 contract was signed with MTCC.
Open burning of waste in Thilafushi poses "an environmental and public health hazard."
Thilafushi island, which is seven kilometres from Malé, stores the refuse produced in the capital and uses it as landfill, or the rubbish is burnt.
A piece of debris found washed ashore in the Maldives and thought to be wreckage from Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 was thrown out in as garbage...
