Waste Management Corporation Limited (WAMCO) has stated waste will be collected from the ground floor of all households in the Greater Male' Region until August 1, despite the eased lockdown restrictions.
WAMCO brought changes to its waste collection services after the first COVID-19 case was detected in Male' City on April 15. As such, the state-owned company decided not to collect waste individually from each floor of a building and requested customers to bring down waste to the ground floor of the building before the allocated collection hours. WAMCO said waste collection from households under monitoring will be conducted by a special team as per instructions from the Health Protection Agency (HPA).
Furthermore, WAMCO stated waste collection timings in the Greater Male' Region have not changed and will be from 1200hrs to 1400hrs daily. The company requested customers to ensure the waste is packaged securely in double bags to avoid leakage.
Rafeeq Ahamed
The initiative is good to collect the waste from Ground but the few people do not properly throw the waste in the closed cover because of which the waste get spill over to the ground and make the place filthily which leads to increase in mosquitoes . Even WAMCO person do not clean the place properly while picking the waste . Because of some people every one has to suffer.