Garbage trucks should drive in to reduce burden on elderly

Sanjia is a small sparsely populated village in Dongshi Township, Chiayi County. The garbage truck only comes four times a week and doesn’t drive all the way to the end of the village. This has lead to a situation where whenever the time to throw out the trash arrives, villagers living at the far end of the village can be seen dragging bags of trash to disposal of in the waiting rotating garbage drum at the back of the truck. The villagers performing this task are mostly elderly and children, and it is not an uncommon scene to see villagers chasing after the garbage truck.

Following calls from local villagers, the local township office promised that in the future garbage trucks would drive to the end of the village; however, on grounds of “a dangerous section of road” the garbage trucks refused. Villagers argue that they are paying the garbage collection fee just like everyone else and that the road in front of their houses is more than wide enough. The township office should show more concern for senior citizens and those with mobility issues, and demand that the garbage trucks drive all the way to people’s homes, thereby reducing the burden of carrying heavy loads of garbage for disposal. 

Garbage trucks should drive in to reduce burden on elderly 

URL:https://www.peopo.org/news/282929

(以下是中文對照)

垃圾車應開進來 減輕老人負擔

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嘉義縣東石鄉三家村是鄉下地方人數較少，每週垃圾車只會來四次，且都不會開到村尾。導致每當丟垃圾的時間一到，就會看到住在村尾的村民，拖著大包小包的垃圾，先行前往垃圾車的折返處等待。其中村民多是老人和小孩，還會看到村民追垃圾車的景象。

村民也曾經打電話給鄉公所反應，一開始公所承諾會開到村尾，但後來卻以路段危險的理由拒絕。不過村民認為自己有按時繳交清潔費，且住家前面是寬大的馬路，並非小巷子。公所應該體諒較年長，或行動不便的村民，要求垃圾車開到住家前收垃圾，減少村民走路提重物的負擔。