By Opesika Tetteh Puplampu
Kasseh, April 16, GNA – Mr Frank Opoku Abimah, the Ada East District Environment Health Officer, has said the department will be introducing a house-to-house waste collection, to help address sanitation challenges in the district.
He said tricycles would be used to perform the house-to-house waste collection task.
Mr Abimah, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said he was worried about the increased state of poor sanitation practices among some community members.
He said some residents were found to be dumping waste on the floor anytime the waste container was full or taken away to be emptied.
Mr Abimah also revealed that some parents send children who could not reach the height of the container to dump refuse, leaving the children with no option than to dump them on the floor even when the container was empty.
He stressed that good sanitation practices must be part of the daily lives of residents and not a task for Zoomlion or any other waste management companies.
The introduction of the house-to-house waste collection programme would help address the sanitation malpractices in the district, he said, stating further that sanitation by-laws would also be enforced to help address the issue.
“When the tricycles come to your vicinity, you will hand over your refuse to them and pay something small for fuel,” he said.
Mr Abimah said the waste containers would be eliminated in the communities and be replaced with the ‘borla taxis,’ noting that the initiative would commence by the middle of the year.
He cautioned residents who dump waste and empty plastic containers on the roads and gutters to desist from doing so as the government was introducing regulations that would deal with such individuals.
He also revealed that his outfit was currently prosecuting some residents for various sanitation offences, adding that while some had been fined, others were still going through the trial in court.
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