Government To Dispose Garbage Collected In Colombo Temporarily To Two Places In Karadiyana And Dompe

Government has decided to dispose the Garbage collected in Colombo to two alternative places namely "Karadiyana" in Piliyandala and "Dompe" due to the collapsing of a section of a Meethotamulle Garbage Dump last Friday(14).
According to the Deputy Foreign Minister Dr.Harsha De Silva Garbage in Colombo will be disposed to these two places during next two weeks until finding  a permanent site to dispose the Garbage.

Daily around 800 metric tonnes of Garbage collected in Colombo had been  disposed to the Meethotamulle Garbage Dump till the collapsing of the dump.Even in the morning of last Friday authorities have  disposed garbage to the dump according to the residents.

Meanwhile many higher officials in Institutes have criticized the way some government ministers handled  the Meethotamulle Grabage Dump issue before the collapse had taken place.

The  Ministry Of Megalopolis have opposed a proposal submitted by the Western Provincial Chief Minister Isura Devapriya sometime back  to give permission to a company in United Kingdom(U.K) to take the Garbage collected in Meethotamulle Garbage dump to U.K for a recycling process.The Company has promised to pay 50% of the income generated through the recycling process to Sri Lankan Government it has been reported.

The angry residents lives  near the Meethotamulle Grabage Dump who were opposed the disposing of Garbage collected in .Colombo to the Dump since the beginning of the process have  told the media that if a vehicle belonging to the Urban Council ever arrived to Meethotamulle Garbage Dump again  to dispose Garbage there, they will set fire to that vehicle.