Waste management still a problem: Official

MANY people still do not know the necessary ways to manage their waste, according to East New Britain (ENB) deputy administrator Levi Mano.
Mano made the remark during the first regional consultation meeting for development of waste management policy for New Guinea Island’s in Kokopo last week.
“There is rapid urbanisation where people live together in a community in towns where waste management is generated as part of our livelihood,” he said.
Mano said environmentalist can say that they want to protect the environment and leave the environment as it is but, in development, which everyone wants, there is some degree of destruction to the environment.
“It is not about keeping an environment and not growing the local economy,” he said.
“It is all about growing local economy and managing the consequences.”
Mano said the workshop was all about managing the consequences of urbanisation development and it is not about all the critics that are coming.
“It’s all about how people can manage the waste management that has come as result of urbanisation and economic growth in PNG.”
“It is all about people taking ownership of cleaning their backyard in ensuring that the product of livelihood in a community is properly managed by the household,” he said.