Yet another illegal dump in The City

The pungent odour leading to the latest discovery of bags of offal in the heart of The City has prompted yet another public plea by the Sanitation Service Authority against illegal dumping.

The bags, found at Cavans Lane, Pierhead in The City, contained the entrails of fish, chicken, waste pudding and souse and rotten vegetables, said SSA spokesman Carl Alff Padmore.

Flanked by SSA supervisor of the Reed Street depot Laticia Richards and Acting SSA Superintendent Patrick Newton, Padmore urged Barbadians to put a stop to dumping, which he noted has been on the rise in and around the capital.

Padmore said: “It’s an area that we normally would collect refuse from but we are not in the habit and we always desist from removing offal. Offal should not be making its way into the mainstream of waste at all.

“We want to appeal to businesses, to individuals to desist from this practice. It is dangerous for the environment, it is dangerous for our workers as well.

“If we claim to love Barbados we should not be doing this. Therefore,  if you have offal to dispose of you should contact the Ministry of Health, they will tell you when you can bring it to our landfill.”