Rivers waste management agency begins compulsory profiling of scrap dealers, scavengers

The Rivers State Waste Management Agency, RIWAMA, has commenced compulsory profiling of scrap dealers, discarded recyclers, refurbishers and PET vessel scavengers operating crossed the authorities arsenic portion of efforts to place genuine operators and curb amerciable activities successful the sector.

The agency’s Managing Director, Dr Ibimina Wokoma, said the workout would alteration RIWAMA to found a broad database of operators portion addressing incidents of theft, vandalism, harassment and different activities linked to amerciable scavenging.

Wokoma, who disclosed this successful a connection aft a gathering successful Port Harcourt, besides accused immoderate scavengers of vandalising authorities facilities and tearing unfastened decently bagged discarded successful hunt of recyclable materials, thereby leaving garbage scattered connected the streets.

He described radical who patronise specified scavengers arsenic accomplices and called for a factual program to extremity amerciable scavenging and its associated activities.

Under the caller directive, anyone progressive successful scrap dealing, recycling, refurbishing oregon PET vessel postulation is required to get and implicit a profiling form, connect the indispensable documents and taxable the signifier to RIWAMA wrong 1 month.

The bureau said enforcement teams would commence operations aft the expiration of the one-month period, with operators expected to comply with the profiling requirements.

RIWAMA has besides developed ...