"sanitation costs" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used in the context of describing the expenses associated with hygiene and public health. For example, "The city is responsible for the sanitation costs associated with maintaining public parks."
Reducing the use of plastic bags, he added, would also save money for store owners who currently buy them and provide them without charge to customers; and fewer bags in the trash would reduce the city's sanitation costs.
A pioneering SMS service and waste treatment system is dramatically bringing down sanitation costs in Senegal's capital and, if successful, may even lead to customers making a small profit from their ordure instead of paying someone to take it away.
For example, lack of adequate sanitation costs the world 260 billion dollars a year, which is more than the entire GDP of 140 countries.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who started the ball rolling when he launched a campaign to cut down on the sanitation costs associated with picking up newspapers, said he was "satisfied" that the country had recognized that Bloomberg "knows what's best," and hinted he would soon launch a new effort to get people to go to bed earlier and pin their mittens to their coat sleeves.
Others thought sanitation costs were high and unaffordable.
Cholera: Poor sanitation costs lives in West Africa Marbella.
In 2001, the Asian Development Bank estimated that health problems linked to poor sanitation cost Indonesians the equivalent of 2.4% of GDP.
Working closely with governments, UNICEF also helps strengthen policies and budgets and support technical capacities in programmes for hygiene promotion, sanitation, cost-effective water supply options and water quality, particularly for poor rural and urban families.
Aside from the obvious insult to human dignity, poor sanitation literally costs the entire world US$260 billion a year.
Simplified sewerage will only truly be a pro-poor technology if issues such as lack of investment in sanitation, insufficient cost recovery for sanitation services, conservative technical standards favoured over innovation, low-cost technologies perceived as second class provision, the nature of peri-urban settlements, and lack of engagement with users, are addressed.
Poor sanitation practices cost India US$53bn a year in economic losses (preventable death and disease, lost productivity, impaired educational achievement and lost tourism revenue).
