Operation Show Your PSP Receipt: Taskforce, Waste Mgt Begin Enforcement ln Delta

Operation Show Your PSP Receipt: Taskforce, Waste Mgt Begin Enforcement ln Delta

The Delta State Taskforce on Environment on Tuesday joined the Waste Management Board to enforce compliance of Private Sector Participants (PSP) patronage. 

It was observed that most residents of Uvwie and Warri prefers to patronize the cart pushers who had no knowledge of proper waste disposal rather than patronizing the Government recognised organ saddled with the responsibility of disposing wastes in a professional manner. 

Reacting to complaints from residents of Commissioner str, opp. Ekpan General hospital among other streets, the Delta State Taskforce Chairman on Environment, Honourable Sylvester Oromoni said that the generation of waste and it's disposal, collection, transport are important for healthy ecosystems and the health of our people remain sacrosanct. 

He said the patronage of cart pushers had given birth to illegal dump sites across the various local government areas of the state, mostly the urban local government areas. 

According to him, main health outcomes have been found to be statistically associated with waste exposure caused by delayed evacuation and they are: gastrointestinal, dermatological, respiratory, genetic, and several other kinds of infectious diseases. 

"So, it is expected of the PSP operators to be up and doing. My private investigation shows that some of the operators do not have trucks, they will have to wait for few ones that have trucks to finish with their zones so they can rent it from them to evacuate their own zones. 

"That's irresponsiblity. If you are not ready to invest money to upgrade your business, give room for others who have the capacity to serve the people as at when due," Oromoni stressed. 

He said so many residents had lost faith with the PSP and decided to patronize the cart pushers who are more efficient and prompt than the PSP operators.  

"This must not continue, they should understand that human beings generally do not keep waste for too long. Two weeks is too long for evacuation of wastes from residents. 

"In the face of increasing population level and rapid urbanization, the increased urbanization with large population density has further intensified these concerns, unless we take urgent effective steps to improve solid waste management now will give birth to many illegal dump sites. 

"Little attention is given to waste disposal by the PSP and we won't tolerate that practices any more as it is gives room to heaps of wastes in the major cities littering the streets, dumped indiscriminately in drainages, vacant plots and open space especially in the developing cities and this has contributed not only to the spread of communicable diseases in the affected areas; it has effect on flooding and other environmental problems," Oromoni stated.