The Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality will soon start re-enforcing anti-litter regulations because community members continue to leave trash on the sides of the road, some that are not even typhoon related. <\/p>\n
BECQ would like to inform the community that litter officers would be patrolling villages from 4:30am to 6:30pm to cite people who continue to leave trash by public roads.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want the community [to know] we\u2019re out here, we\u2019re making sure you\u2019re not bringing your household trash, because we will first warn you\u2026then we will have no choice but to enforce the anti-littering regulation,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Three months following the onslaught of Super Typhoon Yutu, the Department of Public Works, the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office, and BECQ continue to pickup trash off of the side of public road ways despite the implemented deadline of Jan. 15. <\/p>\n
The trash no longer consists of just typhoon-related debris but of household waste as well. <\/p>\n
According to BECQ administrator Eli Cabrera, trash continues to re-appear when BECQ comes in for a final sweep. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe deadline was to inform the public that the last day to be putting your trash out by the road is Jan. 15 and we would do a final sweep\u2026but it looks like it\u2019s not working. They clean it today, we come by tomorrow and then there\u2019s trash again,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Cabrera said that the agencies would need to stop picking up the trash because its no longer typhoon related. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to need to call it\u2026we\u2019re only addressing typhoon-related debris. The challenge now that\u2019s making it difficult for the mayor and the Department of Public Works is\u2026that whenever we clean in one place, give it a day or two, there\u2019s a new batch of trash piled up. At some point it\u2019s going to have to stop,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI know a lot of the stuff that we\u2019re collecting are suppose to be typhoon-related that FEMA covers with reimbursement for our efforts but if you start seeing trash bags, you know it came from the house, those are not typhoon debris but the community is becoming more dependent and comfortable\u2026 and that\u2019s kind of the challenge right now,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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