Waste company fumigates community landfill site at Nsumia
Waste Landfills Company Limited, the operator of the Nsumia Waste Disposal facility in the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipality, has undertaken a fumigation exercise to rid the landfill site and the Nsumia community of harmful insects.
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The exercise was also undertaken to prevent the possible outbreak of cholera in the municipality, since the landfill site was a potential breeding ground for houseflies and other insects that cause diseases.
The Nsumia Waste Disposal facility was opened as an alternate landfill site for the disposal of solid waste. The site was also established in order to reduce the pressure on long-existing landfill sites in the country.
Reason for the exercise
The Operations Manager, Mr Richard Omani-Mensah, in an interview with the Daily Graphic, said the exercise was undertaken every week as part of the company’s corporate social responsibility to the people of the community.
He said insects like houseflies which were the main hosts for bacteria that caused cholera, had an incubation period of seven days and so the fumigation exercise was being used to break its breeding cycle.
He added that portions of the site which were undeveloped were to be covered with laterite to prevent houseflies from breeding in those places and also to reduce the stench that fills the air in the neighbouring communities.
“The site is a potential breeding ground for mosquitoes, cockroaches and other insects and so the exercise is one of the measures to curtail the outbreak of diseases,” he said.
Fumigation in communities
Mr Omani-Mensah said the company had also extended its weekly spraying exercise into the community and added that residents were also trained in personal hygiene and advised to keep their environment clean at all times.
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“We advise them on ways of disposing of their waste so that they do not create breeding grounds for disease-carrying insects,” he added.
Take hygiene seriously
Mr Omani-Mensah urged the people in the community to adhere to the sanitation laws.
A resident who gave her name as Auntie Agartha praised Waste Landfills Company Limited for fumigating the community.
She said since the landfill site was set up, the company had been spraying the community to rid the area of harmful insects and bad odour, and urged other waste management companies to emulate the example of the company.