Ogun State Government has mandated all residential houses in the state to henceforth containerize their waste by providing covered waste containers in front of their premises for effective waste management.
Special Adviser to the Governor on Environment and Managing Director of Ogun State Waste Management Authority OGWAMA,Hon Abayomi Semako Hunye made this known in a statement in Abeokuta today.
He said the order because necessary to make waste collection at this domestic level better organized through containerization and bring in more residential premises into waste management system that hitherto dump or burn their waste into unauthorized places which have negative effects on the environment.
Hunye said the residents of those premises concerned are free to purchase their containers from open markets or make special arrangements with the Waste Private Sector Participants assigned to their communities.
"This new order will not only bring in more premises into the system but will discourage waste been dropped into uncovered plastics, nylons,cans and sacks which will fly about at the slightest opportunity making the environment untidy,unsafe and unhealthy for human habitation.
To sustain the new order since the collectors are Private Sector Participants assigned to different communities, Hunye said each residential premises are to pay a token to the PSP that service them in form of waste bill while the state government will augment the payment.
"The subsidized residential waste bill is a proof that residents in a particular premise subscribed into the waste service and not the real cost of waste collections from their premises which is much more higher" "The subscribed waste bill also give residents the opportunity to have this important document which are now used for documentation in local,national, international and financial documentations and transactions "
For those premises which are not accessible by waste trucks and feared not been serviced after complying with the new order,Hunye assured them of adequate services as waste tricycles will be deployed to service them and called for the cooperation of all residents and Community Development Associations to made the new order a huge success for the overall interest and well-being of all.
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