Visionscape To Take Delivery Of 180 New Trucks, Identifies 5,000 Illegal Refuse Dumps

Visionscape Sanitation Solutions on Friday disclosed that it will take delivery of another 180 new trucks before next month.

The body also disclosed that it had discovered 5,000 black spots across the Lagos metropolis where Lagosians dumped refused illegally.

Speaking at an interactive session with the media in Victoria Island, Lagos, the Chief Operations Officer, Visionscape Sanitation Solutions, Thomas Forgacs, said currently, the company has 131 trucks at its disposal to cart away refuse in the state.

According to Forgacs: “Before April, we will receive new batch of 180 trucks.”

He added that currently, there were about 15,000 waste bins of 240 litres capacity each and 5,000 waste bins of 1,100 litres capacity each deployed to different spots in Lagos for people to dump their refuse.

He also disclosed that in the second and third batches, 200,000 galvanised waste bins would arrive Lagos in August 2018, adding that before the end of the year, 10 million plastic bags would be distributed across Lagos.

The Head of Planning, Visionscape Sanitation Solutions, Kiran Reddy, disclosed that the body had identified about 5,000 black spots or illegal dumping sites across the state, saying that it could be more than that.

Reddy said many of these illegal dumping sites had between five and 150 tons of waste being dumped in them, adding that Visionscape had successfully evacuated waste from 2,000 black spots across the state.

Reddy said the body rented about 50 trucks to assist in evacuating the waste from the black spots in order to keep the areas clean.

He added that by mid-April, 300,000 litres containers would be deployed to Lagos to aid refuse collection and disposal.

Also speaking, the Head, Corporate Communications, Visionscape, Motunrayo Elias, said the body had been in touch with the Waste Collection Operators, formerly PSP operators, to solve the refuse challenge in Lagos.

Elias said Visionscape was finally coming to an agreement with the WCOs, adding that the resolution reached with them would be announced in few days time.

Elias added that over 100 companies had joined Visionscape to solve the refuse challenge in the Lagos metropolis, saying about 200 additional trucks from their partners were currently on the road working to cart away refuse from the metropolis.

She said: “By Easter time, there will be a remarkable difference on the streets of Lagos.

“We had an agreement with the WCOs and their trucks are working with us now to evacuate waste from the roads.”

The Eagle Online