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Commercial entities are chief contributors to solid waste – City Mayor

Aug 13, 2013 News

“Arguing that unhealthy practices of waste disposal around the city should be everybody’s concern,” Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green noted that commercial firms continue to be a major component to the effects of solid waste.
“The council has always encouraged those who vend along the streets of Georgetown to properly dispose of their garbage. However, those who operate big businesses and the everyday commuters continue to play a major role in garbage disposal around the city.”
Green in a recent interview with this newspaper, responded to a statement made by acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba, who had stated that street vending is one of the main contributors to the solid waste issue in the city. At the time, Sooba was giving her reasons, for ordering the removal of several vendors around the city.
“This statement is a diabolical one to justify a unilateral attempt to remove the vendors particularly in these circumstances.”
The Mayor noted the dumping of garbage by commercial entities worsened with implementation of the dumpsite site at the Haags Bosch landfill.
“The council had long argued that the establishment of that landfill at Haags Bosch was not feasible, since it creates a situation where persons will have to travel along the East Bank Public road, which is usually jammed with traffic to dispose of waste at the site that is only open for specified hours and there is also a tipping fee.”
The Mayor said that the current Administration is to be blamed for the complications of solid waste and Haags Bosch. Operating on the directive of BK International, the Haags Bosch landfill sits on several acres of land at Eccles Industrial site, East Bank Demerara. The contract for the landfill was awarded to BK International and Puran brothers at a cost of US $9.7 million.
The two companies were tasked not only with constructing the landfill, but also with operating the site over a five to nine-year period. The landfill is a collection and treatment site, as is the role of sanitary landfills, which is basically a hollow in the ground in which garbage is dumped, flattened and covered daily with a fresh layer of dirt. The facility caters for the garbage disposal of the 15 Neighbourhood Democratic Councils, as well as other locations.
The garbage disposal at Haags Bosch follows a systematic process. The complex opens from 6am-5pm daily.
In addition to the Haags Bosch issue, Green said that, “Government also has failed to ban the use of non biodegradable products… the constant dumping of plastic bags and Styrofoam boxes are a nuisance to the waterways.”
The Government had announced its intention to ban the use of all non-biodegradable Styrofoam food boxes, plastic soda bottles and aluminum tins, which tend to clog the waterways and drains, resulting in millions spent on cleaning exercises.
These products health analysts say are unsafe for the environment as well as individual day to day usage.

 

 

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