THE National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is calling on all Jamaicans to join the campaign against illegal dumping, particularly on National Solid Waste Day, June 6.
We want to get the conversation going at the community level where people see this, not as something that is being done by the NSWMA but as a duty they have to protect the environment and to keep their communities clean,” executive director of the NSWMA, Audley Gordon, told JIS News in an interview.
On June 5, the day before National Solid Waste Day, the authority will conduct a live outside broadcast from its head office, where portfolio Minister Desmond McKenzie, the authority's board of directors and regional operations managers will join in discussion about the costly matter of illegal dumping.
Gordon pointed out that the authority's funding from property taxes is for the collection of domestic garbage, and that the clearing of illegal dumps can cost the NSWMA anywhere from $500,000 to $2 million.
The broadcast on illegal dumping will be carried on Nationwide News 90FM from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm on June 5, with the discussions continuing on the authority's social media pages, @nswma and @nswma876, on National Solid Waste Day, June 6.
