City businesses urged to comply with garbage collection timings

…or face charges for violation
To avoid the risk of being charged, the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (GM&CC) is urging businesses within commercial districts to comply with the garbage collection schedules.
Solid Waste Director, Walter Narine has positioned that garbage collection is being done twice a day in these zones, as he rapped stakeholders for decrying lack of waste receptacles.

“In our campaign right now with arresting people, there is a big cry about lack of receptacles in commercial districts. I find that’s an excuse for you to litter. Commercial areas are Bourda, Lacytown and Water Front areas. That is the commercial zone. The collection period is two collections per day,” Narine outlined.
Collections start at 06:00h and end at 18:00h. The contractor would comb Regent Street from 08:00h to 08:30h; while different timings follow for other areas. He added that if a business entity fails to put out their waste during the scheduled time, charges will be instituted.
“If you put out your garbage after the contractor would have passed, you are liable to be charged. That is the collection period now. We have people putting out their garbage 10:30h during the day. It can’t happen. It should not have happened. When you open your businesses, put your garbage out. The truck will be available to collect your garbage.”
He also encouraged those who miss the morning collection to keep their refuse until the evening, when the contractors would return for the second round.
“If you miss the morning collection, rather than put it out and get charged, put it out in the evening. Put your garbage out when you close your store at 05:00h. You’re guaranteed to be collected in the evening collection.”
Some 30 new waste receptacles were made available to the Council and will be placed strategically along Regent and Robb Streets. These will be emptied every day. Meanwhile, households will also be breaching the regulations if they do not follow the guidelines.
“The schedule is posted on the Mayor and City Council’s Facebook page, detailing the day of collection for the different wards and areas of the city. You cannot, as a household or a business, put out your garbage before the day of collection or after. If you do so, you are in breach of the EPA’s litter regulation and you will be charged,” the Solid Waste Director highlighted.
He added that in a case where the collection is slow that day and contractors do not show, persons are required to retrieve the bins and place them within their premises.
“The information you receive from the Solid Waste Department or the contractor telling you when they would pass back, until then, you put out your garbage again. You have to work with us because when you have your bins before or after, you are putting it to the homeless people opening the cover and throwing your stuff out. You will be charged and sometimes, people are stealing your receptacles.”