ALLEGATIONS against garbage disposal company Cevon’s Waste Management are being made by Wisroc residents, who are saying that the company is dumping garbage at the community’s watershed area. This is being deemed a health hazard, since the water is used to supply Wismar residents. Since 2014, Cevon’s waste has been providing a weekly garbage-disposal service for residents across Linden. The residents claim that the garbage after collected is being of at the water shed. This service was welcomed by many residents, since the municipality’s garbage-disposal service was unreliable. This unreliability had resulted in garbage being piled up at several locations around Linden. Residents were also forced to burn their garbage which led to air pollution.
With many residents benefiting from this service however, the Wisroc residents are being affected adversely and they are afraid that the water will become polluted and unsafe for use. One resident who asked for her name to be withheld told this publication that not only does Cevon’s Waste dump garbage there, but many other organisations were guilty of the act and the situation was one that needed urgent attention since their health was at risk.
With this being deemed an illegal dump site, Regional Chairman Renis Morian said that legal action would be taken against Cevon’s Waste Management and the other organisations such as the Wismar Hospital using the area to dump their garbage. “I am asking Cevon’s Waste on behalf of the region and the residents to stop dumping garbage there, because legal action will be taken against them,” he said.
The Regional Chairman said that the situation started before he took office but would not continue under his watch. He will be sending correspondence to the Environmental Protection Agency to have this situation remedied. “We want to promote a green environment and to promote a green environment we have to put garbage disposal management under a separate programme and to look at the whole business of garbage disposal comprehensively,” he said. The newly elected councillors, though not sworn in as yet, have already met to discuss the garbage-disposal situation in Linden and are looking at avenues to improve it.