I just read a news article yesterday about a local man who dumped a whole bin-liner's worth of trash in front of the office of his municipal council in protest against irregular trash collection in his neighbourhood. I think that this man spoke for countless citizens across the country when he drove over 10km to deposit his waste in front of the powers-that-be to amply demonstrate his frustration with local councils' waste disposal services or the lack of thereof. In my own housing area the trashmen have been irregular on many a day. They are supposed to collect the trash thrice weekly in my neighbourhood. But sometimes they make it only twice a week, giving the excuse that the dumpster truck broke down or they are sick etc. Or they come as and when they feel like it. On the days when our rubbish remain uncollected, stray cats, dogs etc would chew through the binliners and the rubbish would be strewn all over the place and the resulting festering stench and mess is quite quite unbearable. Not to mention a danger to public health. I am with this citizen totally - I'd like our municipal councils to be more circumspect and discerning when giving out trash disposal contracts to companies that provide such services. If they can't tender contracts out to the best people to do the job but merely dole out contracts to whoever is paying them more kickbacks or whatever greases their palms, then we, the end-users of crappy services, have the right to collectively dump all our rubbish in front of the municipal council office just like what that man had done.
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