Food fears spark waste alert.Byline: MOHAMMED Mohammed. For persons thus named, use Muhammad. AL A'ALI AN anticipated five-fold increase in kitchen waste during Ramadan has prompted an appeal for people to cook responsibly during the holy month. The Manama Municipal Council is concerned that sanitation workers sanitation worker n. A person employed, as by a municipality or private company, to collect and dispose of garbage. will simply be unable to cope with the massive increase in household rubbish. It is now planning a campaign to stress the virtues of cooking only what people expect to eat, fearing excess food could lead to garbage garbage: see solid waste. piling up outside homes and clubs where Ramadan events are held. The campaign is being launched in Manama on Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. and councillors have already started contacting expatriate Expatriate An employee who is a U.S. citizen living and working in a foreign country. and civil societies and clubs where lectures will be held. A meeting is also scheduled next week with Manama cleaning company GCCC GCCC Gulf Coast Community College GCCC Gold Coast City Council (Queensland, Australia) GCCC Garden City Community College (Garden City, Kansas) GCCC Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce to see if it was ready to meet the five-fold increase in domestic waste. "People should conserve food during Ramadan and not waste it," said council services and public utilities committee chairman Sadiq Rahma. "Ramadan should be promoting healthy eating habits, which means a decrease in food consumption, but what is seen is the opposite. "People tend to prepare or cook food for 10, while those eating are two or three and the rest is thrown out. "This results in a five-fold increase in garbage compared to regular days." Mr Rahma said the council had already contacted a number of societies and clubs to hold lectures. "We have discovered that any advice we give tends to stick to people's minds, when it's given in the last minute," he said. "Although I believe that people shouldn't be taught about something like this and that it should come from themselves, I am willing to do anything to ensure that our streets are clean." Mr Rahma said the GCCC cleaning company could face some problems with the huge increase, but that he believed they were prepared. "We will meet them and discuss arrangements to ensure that nothing goes wrong and that garbage that shouldn't be there in the first place doesn't get stacked Stacked is an American television sitcom that premiered on Fox on April 13, 2005. On May 18, 2006, Stacked was cancelled, leaving five episodes unaired in the United States. The last episode aired on January 11, 2006. at people's doorsteps," he said. "What people can't understand is that because of their bad eating habits, the Manama Municipality MUNICIPALITY. The body of officers, taken collectively, belonging to a city, who are appointed to manage its affairs and defend its interests. is being forced to pay more to the cleaning company, just to have their waste cleaned. "This money could be spent elsewhere on something all people will benefit from." alaali@gdn.com.bh Copyright 2009 Gulf Daily News Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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