Yerevan municipality fines waste disposal company for second time in one month
10.09.2018,
15:08
The municipality of Armenia’s capital city Yerevan has penalized Sanitek waste disposal company for the second time in one month for its failure to eliminate a long string of shortcoming discovered by the municipality and the district administrations.
YEREVAN, September 10. /ARKA/. The municipality of Armenia’s capital city Yerevan has penalized Sanitek waste disposal company for the second time in one month for its failure to eliminate a long string of shortcoming discovered by the municipality and the district administrations.
According to a municipality report, the imposed fine is almost 13 million drams (the equivalent of about $26,000). The first fine was an equivalent of $25,000.
Throughout the summer trash service in the city has been spotty, with dumpsters overflowing and angry residents complaining of smelly garbage littering their alleys. Some media stories claimed the problem was part of sabotage with a political context. Fears were raised that this situation was fraught with serious health consequences, especially on hot summer days.
However, these fears were denied by Sanitek which said that the refuse collection in Yerevan has always been and will be carried out in accordance with the agreement it signed with the municipality. It said one of the problems was that many of the garbage trucks were out of service. -0-
