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Jan 28, 2016 News
… removal exercise executed on Regent Street
The Georgetown City Council has taken an approach to ban the storing of building materials on Council reserves and parapets as a result of the prevailing dry conditions.
Recently, the Solid Waste Department efforts to further restore the capital city saw them removing more than 133,000 lbs of construction waste along commercial Regent Street, central Georgetown.
Spearheading the ongoing operations Solid Waste Director, Walter Narine, explained that construction waste removed was left behind by business owners and contractors following completion of construction works at the locations along Regent Street, from Albert Street to Vlissengen Road.
The Solid Waste Director noted that the remains usually result in blockages of drains along the commercial zones.
However, he noted that while no formal request has been made of corporate Guyana to assist, his team has managed fairly well with the available human capacity but he said support from the business community whether through human resource or garbage bags and receptacles, would not be refused.
Additionally the department continues to conduct evening street sweeping and drain cleaning exercises in Georgetown. In one day alone more than 70 garbage bags were filled.
Similar exercises are to be conducted with boundaries of Croal Street, North Road, King Street and Water Street according to Narine who noted that all the streets and drains within those boundaries will be cleaned routinely in addition to the daily collection of solid waste which is done by contractors of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC).
Presently, Narine has in his employ, eight staff and a garbage truck which facilitates the evening cleaning which is expected to become a long term exercise. He is in the process however, of recruiting 6 additional persons and expanding the boundaries which are being cleaned routinely, due to its commercialized nature.
Also proposed on a long term basis is the plan to generally have garbage collection in and around Georgetown collected in the evening and stored at a holding site which will be located at a central point.
Narine, who recently returned from a Solid Waste forum in Japan, explained that this is a practice in Japan which could be adopted since it provides a more convenient way of collecting garbage.
“During the evening there is less traffic and no sun, so it requires less of the solid waste collectors who are already doing strenuous work and the stench emanating from the garbage trucks will not affect people as much during the night because there isn’t much happening on the roads,” Narine said.
Meanwhile the fire at the Haag Bosch landfill site aback of Eccles has been extinguished and efforts are presently on the way to seal off the cell so as to prevent it from being reignited.
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