A company dissatisfied with the failure to pay waste collection costs

General News on Wednesday, January 16th, 2019

Source: ghananewsagency.org

2019-01-16

Zoom Lion, a waste management and sanitation company, said on Wednesday that the company would not collect or dump domestic trash cans if households did not pay their monthly 30.00 GHC fee.

The company expressed dissatisfaction with the attitude of some households who waived their obligation to pay the monthly charges, but expected the company to empty their trash cans.

In response to complaints from residents of Adomako, a suburb of Sunyani Township, Mr. George Manu, Regional Director of Public Jobs at Brong-Ahafo in Zoomlion, said that waste management in the country was a costly affair and serious.

Residents had previously expressed disappointment at the activities of the waste management company of Sunyani Municipality, noting that it had failed to collect or empty their garbage containers. train to create a mess in the area.

However, in an interview with Ghana News Agency (GNA), Manu said Zoomlion is committed to promoting environmental cleanliness by ensuring that adequate bins are provided to households and communities.

He explained that it was the responsibility of the metropolitan, municipal and district bademblies to ensure that public refuse containers are provided in the communities and not to the responsibility of society.

Nana Osei Kyeretwie Duako, chief of Adomako, said the community did not have a public garbage bin, that locals littered the area and jostled waste, creating an unhealthy environment for them.

He expressed concern that the situation worsened and contributed to the spread of communicable diseases when the rains fell, and appealed to the Sunyani Municipal Assembly and NGOs to They help the community.