A quantity of 175 tons of garbage was collected, in 2023, from the side of the national roads that cross the Harghita county, the amount paid to the sanitation companies that take this waste being a substantial one.
The head of the work point of the Miercurea-Ciuc National Roads Section (SDN), Cătălin Romanescu, said on Tuesday, for Agerpres, that every Monday and Friday SND employees collect the garbage thrown on the side of the seven national roads in the county, on a length of 401 kilometers, and the collected waste is then taken over by sanitation companies.
Statistical data show that approximately 100,000 lei were paid for the collection of the 175 tons of waste collected in 2023.
According to the quoted source, on the side of the national roads there is a wide variety of waste, from PETs, papers and different packaging, to beds, pillows and bags full of household waste, these being found, especially at the entrance and at leaving the towns.
In relation to the trash cans in the parking lots, Cătălin Romanescu stated that they are periodically vandalized
“Garbage bins were erected in parking lots and we continue to erect them, but they are vandalized. We have to appeal to people’s civic sense, to stop throwing garbage out the window, to take it home or to the dumpsters they find in the localities”, Romanescu pointed out.
He believes that a solution to solve this problem would be to monitor all the national roads with video cameras, and those who throw garbage should be held accountable.
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