MBPP use six trucks to clear 4,440kg of waste from George Town house

The Star

It took six truckloads to remove a total of 4,440kg of garbage piled up inside the compound of a single-storey house in the southwest district in Penang.  Some 20 workers from the Penang Island City Council (MBPP) were dispatched to clear the site at 8.30am on Thursday (Feb 6).  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/y89c736v  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The Penang Island City Council deployed six trucks and 20 workers

00:06to remove 4,440 kilograms of garbage

00:10from a single-storey house compound in the South West District.

00:14The clean-up operation, conducted on Thursday morning,

00:17took approximately five hours to complete.

00:20The resident, found living amongst towering piles of waste,

00:24was issued a fine of 2,021 ringgit and 74 cen

00:29by the council to cover cleaning, transportation and disposal costs.

00:35Following complaints and subsequent investigations,

00:38the South West District Health Department served the resident

00:41with a notice on October 7, 2024,

00:45citing Section 8 of the Destruction of Disease-Bearing Insects Act, 1975.

00:51According to the resident, the accumulated materials

00:54were originally intended for recycling,

00:56with items sorted by value for sale to recycling centres.

01:00However, the resident's deteriorating health

01:03made managing the growing waste impossible,

01:05even as new items continued to accumulate daily.

01:09Local authorities expressed serious concerns

01:12about safety and public health implications.

01:15The council issued an additional warning to the resident,

01:18prohibiting further waste collection

01:20and mandating immediate disposal of any remaining waste on the premises.

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