One-third of the job done
More than 10,000 steel drums and white goods have been removed from rubble walls so far by employees of the manufacturing and services department and the parks and landscape conservation section, both in the ministry of resources and...
More than 10,000 steel drums and white goods have been removed from rubble walls so far by employees of the manufacturing and services department and the parks and landscape conservation section, both in the ministry of resources and infrastructure.
Since the exercise started on June 27, the departments have removed drums and other white goods from Zabbar, Kalkara, Zebbug, Siggiewi, Marsascala, Dingli, Mgarr and Ghaxaq.
The drums are being crushed by a machine made in-house by the manufacturing and services department.
The ministry is shouldering the cost of the removal of the drums but a legal notice enabled the government to remove steel drums and other objects at the owner's expense after six weeks of the issue of a notice.
Some 20,000 still need to be collected.