Condos may be asked to place bins outside bin centres
Published on: Thursday, December 22, 2022
By: Sidney Skinner
The Council’s workers struggle to empty the rubbish from inside this damaged communal bin at the condominiums.
THE management company (MC) for some Kinarut condominiums may be asked to have the communal bins placed outside its bin centres on those days when the rubbish for the property is due to be collected.The Papar District Council hoped in this way it would be able to facilitate efforts to remove the domestic waste from the eight centres within the compound for the condominiums.
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City Hall, on the other hand, is keeping an eye on a Likas neighbourhood to minimise the inconvenience caused to rate-payers when the bins in the area are emptied.
Both agencies were responding to separate complaints about their collection service at both locations.
A Council spokesman said the task of removing the rubbish generated by the 2,100 units at the condominiums was proving more than its four-man team could handle.
“The bins inside the eight centres are often buried under piles of bagged waste,” he said.
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“The MC’s staff already clean up these buildings after our compactor leaves.
The agency’s collection-team removing the piles of bagged waste from one of the bin centres.
“We hope they will consider going one step further and assisting us by wheeling out the bins before the collection team arrives.”
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When asked if more workers could be added to the team, he declined to comment.
The spokesman said the agency would also speak to the MC about upgrading its communal bins to those with bigger capacity as many of the existing ones were either cracked or had wheels which were missing.
“Our workers have been unable to remove the plastic bags of rubbish properly, in numerous instances, because of the poor condition of the bins.
“The company should consider replacing the present 650-litre bins with those which can contain as much as 1,100 litres.
“The MC should also step up the maintenance of these receptacles.”
The garbage at housing areas around Kota Kinabalu is cleared twice a week.
The spokesman was responding to the displeasure expressed by a unit-owner about the breakdown in the collection service at the condominiums.
KAM said the communal bins there were not being cleared for weeks at a time.
“The rubbish is supposed to be removed once every seven days,” he said.
“However, there are weeks when our bins are only emptied after this period or not at all.”
Kam said the collection service had been going from bad to worse since the middle of October.
“I get the feeling that the Council’s workers are coming to the condominiums as and when they like.”
The spokesman said the waste from the property was supposed to be cleared only a weekly basis.
“The collection team has been given a stern reminder about adhering to this schedule,” he said.
“Our staff were warned that their contracts might not be renewed if they failed to do this.”
He said a letter to this affect was given to these individuals.
“We will be monitoring the progress of these workers to ensure that they carry out their tasks responsibly.”
Meanwhile, City Hall garbage collectors have been reminded not to leave behind the bins they wheel out to the agency’s compactors on the housing roads, after the refuse has been removed.
The agency’s staff have been reminded to return the bins to where they were found after the rubbish has been removed.
A spokesman for the agency’s Solid Waste Management Department said the workers had told to return the bins to the front of homes from where they had been taken.
Under the City Hall’s Conservancy and Hygiene By-Laws 1984, rate-payers are required to place their bins either on “concrete bases in the back lane, if any, adjoining such premises or on the edge of the foot way or at the gate of such premises or in some suitable and accessible position to enable it to be readily emptied”.
On a complaint from a Likas motorist about the traffic hazards posed by the dustbins strewn about the housing road leading to her daughter’s kindergarten, he said the agency would keep tabs on the situation.
“The bins at residential properties within our rating-area are cleared twice a week,” he said.
CHIN of Likas said she often had to swerve into the path of on-coming vehicles to avoid hitting the bins which had encroached on the road.
“Thankfully, the drivers coming in the opposite direction are considerate enough to slow down, otherwise I would surely run into them,” she said.
She said she had noticed this problem for some time, especially in the morning when she dropped her daughter off.
“On one or two occasions, some of the empty bins have tipped over side-ways onto the stretch.”
Chin hoped the relevant authority would intervene before an accident occurred and lives were lost.
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