By Erica Apeatua Addo
Tarkwa (W/R), Sept 01, GNA-The Environmental Health Unit in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality will soon issue identification tags to over one hundred and fifty tricycle operators engaged in waste collection in Tarkwa.
The initiative is to ensure that operators with the approval of the assembly would dispose of refuse at authorized places only.
Mr. Benjamin Osei, a public health engineer at the environmental health unit, revealed this when they organized a meeting for the tricycle operators who were into door-to-door waste collection in Tarkwa.
He explained that the meeting was intended to support the assembly’s own waste management operations and other major contract service providers within the municipality.
Mr. Osei said since the tricycle operators could not be left out, they had the meeting with them to formally regularize their operations and bring them under one umbrella to form an association, so from time to time they could convey important information to them.
He advised them to register the tricycles they were using to work, and they also needed to have a driving license because riding without a license was an offense.
Mr. Osei encouraged the tricycle operators to always cover the refuse they collected so that it would not spill while they were carting it to the final disposal site.
Mr. Micheal Vigbgor, a worker with the environmental waste management, commended the unit for the initiative said a lot of them entered the work without any education from the assembly.
According to him, the unit had provided them with its rules and regulations to guide them in their work, and the reason was to stop them from collecting refuse and dump it anywhere.
He suggested that the environmental health unit should hold regular radio programmes to enlighten their colleagues who could not make it to the meeting to join the association.
Mr. Ransford Nana Baidoo, reiterated that the step taken by the unit was good because people would now respect the work they were doing to help keep the town clean.
He appealed to the unit to deal with the bad nuts who had joined the work, so that those of them who have decided to put in their all would have their work yield positive results.
Mr. Baidoo called on his colleagues who were prepared to engage in the waste collection business to join the association to enable them to operate legally, protected from harassment, opportunity for training, and enhanced trust among households and clients.
GNA
Edited by Justina Hilda Paaga /Kenneth Odeng Adade
Reporter Erica Apeatua Addo
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