Dominica Solid Waste Management Corporation (DSWMC) will soon introduce a new color code system for the disposal of garbage in order to improve in its collection.
This was according to General Manager of Dominica Solid Waste Management Corporation (DSWMC), Florian Mitchell during a recent interview with Dominica News Online (DNO).
“The context of the color code system – what we want to do is to ensure if you see a garbage truck pass and you are living in a particular zone, for example, the south is Zone One, so we using a color code system as red,” he explained. “So if you see a garbage truck passing and you see a red strip it, that means the truck is assigned to Zone One.”
He said there are seven distinctive zones for garbage collection and each zone will have its own equipment and its own color code.
“South would be Zone One, red,” he stated. “Goodwill, Pottersville, Massacre belong to Zone Three. It is orange.”
He said the DSWMC has introduced a new collection system for garbage, mostly for the southern part of the island.
He stated that the areas that are earmarked include Castle Comfort, Wallhouse, Loubiere, Scottshead, Fond St Jean, Tete Morne, Grandbay, Pichelin, Bellevue and Bagatelle.”
Mitchell said the company introduced two vehicles that were purchased through the Ministry of Finance to help improve on collection in these areas.
“As we speak in Grandbay, Pichelin, Bellevue, their collections will be on Tuesdays and Fridays. Before it was Mondays and Fridays,” he explained. “In the Castle Comfort, Wallhouse, Loubiere area we have pushed back the collection to Thursdays which has been done once weekly.”
Mitchell explained further that the reasons for having once weekly collection are that there is already a full fledge recycling component within those communities, whereby another vehicle is assigned to the Castle Comfort/Wallhouse area solely for the collection of glass, plastic and cans.
“Also in the Soufriere/Scottshead area the collection was twice weekly, but again we have introduced the recycling component in that community and with immediate effect we will be collecting refuse in Soufriere, Scottshead, Pointe Michel every Mondays, and the recycling component in that area is every other Tuesdays,” he noted.
Furthermore, he mentioned that in the Fond Cole, Goodwill and Massacre area the population density is very high, so DSWMC wants to ensure that a reliable collection system is put in place for those communities.
“In the Massacre, Fond Cole, Stockfarm Tarish Pit collection we have changed it to Tuesdays and Fridays, to allow the vehicle to be able to go in that community, Monday to Friday,” Mitchell said. “Mondays would be Goodwill/Pottersville, Thursdays would be Goodwill, Pottersville, St Aroment, Tuesdays and Fridays would be Massacre, Fond Cole, Stockfarm.”
well basically you are saying that you do not have a clue how to collect garbage properly right?
and you need to put a color mark on your truck to know which one to send where!
this is ridiculous.
you should just STOP to collect garbage until official spend a full day in Labass and realize whatv happen over there and what kind of effort and money they should dedicated to Garbage collection if we want to be a ” nature destination” and if we dont want our kids to grow in a garbage bin.
coca cola sponsor a machine to crush plastic more than 2 year ago….guess what the machine is not ON yet , and you know why………NO BUDGET TO DO THE ELECTRICAL CONNEXION !!!!!!! a SHAME !!!!
i want to know when all that non sense going to stop !!
If the days have changed shouldn’t there be a massive campaign to notify the people affected prior to the change? ? Oh common. In many areas this week no one knows of the change and garbage been piling up creating a real mess even for the dogs since we do not have garbage enclosures. You’re trying to help but have created a mess in the process. This can be fixed with a wide-area information campaign! Please fix this!
Does Dominica have a mandatory re-cycling program for cardboard, plastics, tin, vehicle batteries, old vehicles etc. In European countries and parts of the US it is illegal to throw recycibles into a land fill. Is there a location to take items that can be re-cycled? Is there a re-cycle plant. Maybe some of the passport sales money can be used for that endeavor if there is none.
none of the official give a sh..t about that my brother. apres bon dieu c est la terre and after me …….i dont care!!!!
and hear I was thinking this color code system had something to do with recycling… alas nature island alas…
I know right? Who cares what the color of the truck is. Collect the freakin garbage, blue for plastics and bottles.
I wonder when last did the DSWMC management visit Portsmouth?
This information is very confusing. I look forward to when DSWMC starts to advertise this on the media. Also, since when has Castle Comfort had a recycling pick up day. It must be lower Castle Comfort, and not up the hill.
The recycling pick up days in Goodwill don’t seem to work. Many persons place their recyclables in with their regular trash and just leave it out all week as the garbage truck doesn’t always pass on the right day, so it’s best we put out the rubbish than keep in on our premises and the truck passes during the wee hours of the morning on the day AFTER regular pick up is scheduled. Proper large bins should be provided or sold by DSWMC as well. Some serious public education through media and signage needs to begin soon.
Good luck, seeing the mess D/ca is in
DNO, I appreciate your efforts to bring news to Dominicans at home and abroad but please enough of that style of writing of the use of endless direct quotes and he said, he said…. It is too often bland and puts people off. More efforts should be made to present the news items as contextual, coherent and synoptic stories with minimal use of direct quotations.
Dont you worry about those gramatical errors man you got the point. Ok now Mr Princeton..
Commonwealth of Scramble. just incase the Admin in DA plan on changing the country’s name.
Scrambler Nation
This sounds like great news and at least some ways forward. I like to remain positive but when I was in Picard there was no collection of anything for over three weeks. In St Joseph it was less than that but piles of rotting garbage was left to litter the roadside. Many tourists would have been put of seeing these sites!
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more tie up. I hope they introduce it with an education program. this will mean instead of one all encompassing bin that dominicans are used to for ages upon ages, you may end up needing 3-4 bins. glass paper recyclable and trash. Now tell an “entitled” dominican do not throw bottles in the trash, or recyclable material in the bottles, and wait for the ignorance that will come out of their mouth. Again, you will have to educate the people, maybe for at least 2-3 generations, before the country can do it properly. Now before you begin with the bashing of my comment, sit and think about all the places in Dominica where there is CLEAR signage stating DO NOT DUMP RUBBISH, and Dominicans still dump all their rubbish, right under the sign, week in, week out. That is what i mean by being entitled.
Glad to see some progress particularly with the recycling. However once a week is problematic and can lead to health issues. Most people wont want to keep smelly garbage inside fora week. it is not rocket science to imagine that placing it outside will likely happen and can lead to vermin rodents and encouraging stray dogs. I know resources are limited but please review this. It is better to recycle once every two or three weeks and have twice weekly collection instead.
Si Pedro assi va la cosa en DA
More infection Leptospirosis, no nurses what Darroux et Al are thinking?
Iguess they will be/are in a scramble stae of mind.
On that note : We heard Greg Rabess was ill at PMH what’s his status ?
I guess as someone stated earlier DA is in a Scrambler state.