MONTHS after residents questioned the competency of some of the waste collectors in the Twin-city of Sekondi/Takoradi, the Metropolitan Assembly is yet to halt the operations of some of these ill-equipped contractors.
With the increase in population and the volume of waste generated in a day, the rickety equipment of the contractors cannot cope with the volume of refuse generated.
The few communal containers are actually very rusty and inadequate to carry waste from the points of collection to the dumping site at Sofokrom.
Some of the companies have resorted to the use of wheelbarrows in the collection of waste in the metropolis, while some of the drivers use carpet to patch parts of the containers used in carting garbage.
On October 4, 2010, at about 10 a.m. a vehicle of one of the companies which had no registration number was conveying waste to Sofokrom through Sekondi and it littered the street from Takoradi until it finally branched off to the dump site.
Some residents who were interviewed by the Daily Graphic said the collection of waste should be done in a manner devoid of pollution.
No comments:
Post a Comment