Gordon-Webley urges corporate Jamaica to stop improper waste disposal
Published:Thursday | April 7, 2011 | 12:00 AM
National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) boss, Joan Gordon-Webley, is appealing to corporate entities across the island to desist from engaging in improper waste disposals.
"What is sad is that many of the the corporations in Jamaica are responsible for the littering of Jamaica," Gordon-Webley told The Gleaner yesterday. "We are finding that more and more business entities are giving their solid waste to handcart man or a man with a truck."
Gordon-Webley said the NSWMA, from time to time, encourages the entities to use trucks that are registered with the organisation, but the authority's pleas continue to fall on deaf ears.
"You will see trucks running along the road with things draining out. You must check with the NSWMA to see if your collector is a registered collector with us," she urged businesses.
"That has to be. You cannot continue to give it to the handcart men or the truck operators who deposit it in the back streets of Jamaica," she lamented, while stressing that such actions could not be allowed to continue.
"What we are doing now is to patrol the areas at night. Just two nights ago, we caught two persons because they clean the bins in those hours and we will continue because it is an act that is very prevalent," she said.