Two firms engaged in Lusaka garbage collection

TWO companies have been engaged to manage garbage in Lusaka Central business district (CBD).

Lusaka City Council (LLC) waste management team had been facing various challenges such as lack of fuel, hence the resolve to engage private firms.

HW Solid Waste Management and Clean Friends Zambia Limited would undertake the garbage collection exercise.

Lusaka Central Independence ward Area councillor, George Daka, said the LCC through the waste management team could not manage to manage the garbage that was accumulating in CBD.

Mr Daka said it is annoying that the people who were trading on the streets did not mind to handle or trading in a clean environment.

The councillor urged the vendors to always be remindful in the manner they disposed garbage in public places like CBD.

He was hopeful that the garbage would be well managed now that the town has been zoned into two.

Mr Daka however called on all vendors to ensure that they subscribe to the two waste management companies so that garbage could be collected on daily basis.

He said some vendors needed to charge their mind-set and not leaving everything for the local authority especially management of garbage.

Meanwhile, Mr Daka has expressed concerned over the mushrooming of restaurants in the city that had been conducting business illegally.

He said despite the LCC, through public health department, issuing orders for then to stop operating illegally, the restaurants had continued operating.