Storm Harry has exposed the ever growing and pervasive attitude of selfishness and egoism under the Labour government. The Nationalist Party is blaming the government for the failure in the garbage collection system but the government has little to do with this failure. If residents had some slight consideration towards their locality and their neighbours, common sense would have prevailed.
However, and clearly, there are many Maltese residents who have no consideration whatsoever to their environment and their neioghbours.
A day prior to Storm Harry hit the islands, many residents still took out their garbage bags particularly in locations in Paola and Saint Paul’s Bay. Garbage bags remained outside in public streets until they were eventually picked up on Saturday. Some residents complained that the pavements were unusable due to the garbage bags.
Authorities had clearly warned residents to stay indoors apart from warning about the severe weather conditions but this did not prevent many residents to take out their garbage and leaving it in the streets.
The Nationalist Party is calling for the government to end the centralised garbage-collection system and grant this responsibility fully to local councils. This is a very stupid idea which will only make matters worse and the solution should be in further centralisation and very strict enforcement.
Garbage collection was under the responsibility of the local councils before being passed on to regional councils with local councils still being very much involved.
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