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Bajan Health ProtectorsSanitation Service Authority: Keep Barbados Clean February 01 Change of LocationFor further notices on SSA activities, please go to http://ssa-insight.blogspot.com September 26 Removal of Bulky Waste Items in Dash Valley, Monroe Village & Haggatt HallThe St George South division of the District Emergency Organisation with the Ministries of Environment and Health will be removing bulky waste items from Dash Valley, Monroe Village and Haggatt Hall areas only between the 8th and 12th of October 2007.
Bulky waste items consist of old appliances like fridges and ovens as well as similar metallic items like galvanise as well as old furniture or other wooden or plastic items, etc.
These items are to be set near your regular refuse by no later than 2:00 pm of Sunday 7th October 2007, please separate your bulky waste items into wood and other items in one pile and another for only metal objects.
These districts only will undergo the bulky waste clean up – Monroe Village, Dash Valley and Haggatt Hall; other districts will follow in the near future. Again, all bulky waste items such as old appliances or wooden and metallic objects must be separated and done by no later than 2:00 pm on Sunday 7th October 2007. Actual cleansing of such items from these areas runs from 8th to 12th October 2007. August 30 SSA clean up of St George North concludes – 40 truckloads removed!
The Sanitation Service Authority successfully removed 115 tonnes of bulky waste from St George North.
Sanitation sent 40 truckloads were processed; both ten-wheeler trucks and small open-backed lorries were used to complete the work.
Teams under the direction of Plant Superintendent Derek Brereton covered Bourne’s Village; Locust Hall; Applewhaite’s; St Helen’s; Bel-Air; Roach Village; Jericho and Paradise removed wood, pieces of galvanise, old fridges in addition to ovens as well as other bulky items.
The bulky waste removal is part of the SSA’s ongoing programme for all Barbados for the remainder of the year.
More garbage in 2007 than last year'sCrop-OverA WHOPPING 112 tonnes of garbage was collected from three major Crop-Over events this year. Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) public relations officer Ian Bourne told the WEEKEND NATION yesterday in a telephone interview this was 22 more tonnes that last year's 90. He was unable to give a breakdown of the quantities collected from Party Monarch on the Ermie Bourne Highway, St Andrew, on July 29, Cohobblopot on August 5 and Grand Kadooment on August 6 or any of the big fetes, but the figures were for the same three events last year. Bourne said one of the difficulties SSA teams encountered was the rain which slowed collections. Another was pallets left behind by stall owners on Spring Garden Highway. For next year, he has called on police to keep the roads along the Kadooment route open about 15 minutes after the bands have passed. Difficulties "If they had kept the roads open a little longer and kept traffic off, it would have made cleaning up easier. They (teams) had to be dodging cars," he said. Litter patrols, push carters and the street sweeper were used to clean up. Bourne also said it was difficult for crews to climb the hills in St Andrew to collect debris left behind by revellers above the Calypso Bowl. It took two days to clean up that area, he added, and rain compounded the situation. If there was no rain, he said, it would have been done in 12 to 24 hours. Bourne said that more organisers had complied with SSA requests to make "proper arrangements" to have an adequate number of litter bins and clean-ups of their events. "We were given proper notice (for fetes) and I always say that it should be automatic that the same way the Fire Service is called in to talk about exits and the police is called in, Sanitation and the Ministry of Health, in relation to food security and chemical toilets, should be called in," he said. The Sanitation Service Authority wishes all Barbadians clean and safe public holidays in August, as we remind Barbadians there’ll be no collection for Emancipation 1st August or Kadooment 6th August 2007.
All five national cemeteries – Westbury, Christ Church, St. James, Bushy Park and St. Peter – will not be open to the public Wednesday 1st August nor Monday 6th August 2007.
The Mangrove Pond Landfill is open from 6:00 am until 2:00 pm on both 1st and 6th August 2007.
The SSA reminds the public not to set out any refuse until 6:00 pm on the evening of Wednesday 1st August, Emancipation Day 2007 as well as the evening of Kadooment Monday 6th August 2007 for collection next day – all householders should freeze meat trimmings until their next due collection.
The Sanitation Service Authority thanks the public for their cooperation on these public holidays. As the SSA prepares for Kadooment, the Authority is appealing to owners and operators as well as partygoers to help keep Barbados clean.
Here are a few tips that operators and customers need to remember at all times...
Patrons are urged to carry their own bags – so as to reduce littering! In addition, the SSA is offering all interested parties reusable car garbage bags from our headquarters at the NPC building in Wildey.
The SSA is working with the BHTA to see everybody helps keep Barbados clean and to be environmentally responsible not just for Crop Over, but at all times. The Solid Waste Project Unit is hosting a series of workshops to assist Barbadians in reducing, reusing and recycling organic materials on farms and in homes and schools. These home composting workshops will be held on the 21 and 28 July 2007 from 9:00am to 12:00pm.
Composting is a process of gathering various types of plant material such as leaves, grass clippings, food waste and sawdust and placing them in a pile so that they will break down into a rich brownish-black product called compost. This is then used to naturally fertilize and improve the structure of soil. Composting offers the benefits of resource efficiency and creates a useful product from organic waste that would otherwise have been landfilled. According to Waste Management Coordinator, Thora Burnett, those who attend the workshop will be exposed to the process of building a compost bin, managing the composting process effectively and the benefits there of.
This session on home composting is apart of a series which is intended to support the Integrated Solid Waste Management Programme (ISWMP), which is a 20-year vision of managing solid waste on the island. The workshop held by the Solid Waste Project Unit in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation is aimed at educating the public about compost from a waste management perspective, while stressing the benefits of compost to crop production and horticulture.
In a Waste Characterization Study done in 2005 it was discovered that organics account for 30% of the waste stream in Barbados. Much of this organic material is generated in the homes of the average Barbadian resident. Efficient management of the organic material within homes as well as in schools, farms, landscaping companies, construction and maintenance firms, supermarkets, hotels and restaurants will result in a significant reduction in organic waste that is disposed of to landfill.
The workshop intended to target persons in homes, schools and farms will be conducted on the premises of the Solid Waste Project Unit, Maxwelton, Lower Collymore Rock, St. Michael, while the audience will be exposed to hands-on-training in composting with additional information provided through power point presentations and interactive discussion. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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