CMC inks deal for garbage disposal problem

Shirley Wijesinghe

The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) is to enter a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to get the assistance of an American Company to formulate a sustainable solutions to the garbage disposal problem, Municipal Commissioner Badrani Jayawardane told the Daily News yesterday.

The company will open an alternative electrical power generation project near Madampitiya for its total power requirement linked to the American Hospital project expected to be constructed at Peliyagoda, Jayawardane added.

Garbage Piling has posed a serious problem to the city dwellers and those living around the Bloemendhal area are badly affected.

Jayawardane said the CMC had to look for alternative strategies to dispose garbage in the Colombo city. "Therefore a decision has been made by the CMC to dump the garbage at the Boralesgamuwa, Karadi-yana Golden Sun Rise garbages site," she said.

Dumping of solid waste at Karadiyana site was also suspended by a court order, as the site was reserved for garbage from Dehiwala, Boralesgamuwa and Kalubowila localities. But the CMC was able to seek relief till January 16, after submitting facts to the court.

Meanwhile, the CMC invited tenders from waste disposal agents and the quotations will be opened on December 23.