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The burden of waste disposal falls on City Council – Mayor Green

Apr 22, 2010 News

The Mayor and City Council removes 250 tons of garbage daily around the city. This was disclosed by Mayor Hamilton Green, who in an invited comment, lamented that since the Environmental Tax was imposed on styrofoam and plastics, City Hall has been pleading for a part of that tax to take care of cleaning waste from the city.
Mayor Green bemoaned that his council has not been given any assistance from the Environmental Tax to sanitise the city of styrofoam and plastics.  He added that the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is under the “burden” of waste removal in the city. And all the garbage does not hail from the city alone.
The Mayor said that 30 trucks daily from the rural areas with their waste have placed weight on the sanitation process of the City Council.
Mr Green said that farmers come into the city daily with their produce, which when, is disposed of in the city around the Market areas.  He recalled that City Council owes “substantial funds to garbage contractors.”
Mayor Green also said that there should be restrictions on used tyres coming into the country.  He contended that the disposal of these tyres is difficult and that they are some of the sources of fires at dump sites.  New tyres, the mayor stated, will have a lifetime of five to six years. That will take off some of the excess load on the areas of refuse.
When asked about enacted laws to prosecute those who litter the city, whether private or business, the mayor expressed that his Council asked for a municipal court since 1996 to prosecute those who litter but this has never realized.
The City Mayor also pointed out that there are limited prosecutors and constables to ensure the sanitation laws are abided by.
Mayor Green said that since the last floods, there were large amounts of plastic that clogged the main grill at the Liliendaal pump site.
He added that the main grill bent and broke as a result of the pressure from waste such as styrofoam, plastic and “the occasional furniture” in the releasing of the rushing flood waters from the pump into the Atlantic.
Mr Green pointed to a stone punt in the Cowan Street trench that has grime and moss build-up. It was lodged in the Kingston trench and limited the release of flood waters.

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