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This government and the previous one is a waste of time. They are not approaching garbage the way they should.
You can't going around just cleaning people garbage. The CEO of Solid waste should enforce the laws for littering. I know you will see a decrease in garbage on the street. I want the solid waste to start in the key areas in all parishes.
Youare on the MONEY! Enforcement is key, but public education in garbage reduction will be the key. The reducing what is called garbage is a true winner. What is one man's garbage is another man's gold. Why don't we get together and start to help also, and we can get funding for this too.
BRAVO TO YOU
It is true that our system of garbage collection and disposal has failed miserably as both previous bloggers have stated. Also evident is the fact that our population is highy ignorant of what constitutes sanitation hygiene.
What we need is some sort of solution and urgently.
1. It is highly impractical that our Solid Waste moves from one municipality to another; St Cath-St Andrew (similar to the migration of dead bodies in the opposite direction). Moreover, riverton is a DUMP as opposed to a landfill.
2. There is no technical systematic procedure for garbage handling; "Jus sen out wan chruk fi draw it go a Riverton" is hardly a procedure. And why is it that the idea of retaining communal garbage skiffs reserved only for Kgn/St Andrew
3. St Catherine has a larger potential geographical area than Kgn/St Andrew for waste disposal: The saving in fuel consumption alone would justify having a St Catherine waste treatment facility. Not to mention faster turn around time for Garbage trucks.
Solutions are ideas which have been employed elsewhere (Third World examples please).
1. As was stated earlier...PUBLIC EDUCATION and LAW ENFORCEMENT are key...even in the Third World.
2. Garbage can be a source of renewable material and employment for the unemployable with the right structure in place:
A simple heavy duty industrial plastic shredder could spawn a whole new industry.
Used tires are a localised source of energy...In the 1980s, someone came up with something called a Lucas Furnace with scrubber technology to reduce emissions
Metal Recycling of cans require only a compactor.....enuff said there.
Organic waste (yard debris) is easily converted to compost by a simple shredder, chipper (look up the price of compost next time you pass through a gardening store).
What all this really require is ORGANISATION...international funding of such projects is not so difficult once a proper project proposal is presented...and might even be a profitable source of employment.
Alas, organisation is a not so much a character trait of our government while our private sector knows only how to buy and sell merchandise...COULD OUR NGOs and community organisations through volunteerism (yes- that expletive we hate so) be a possible solution???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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