01/07/2024
AN OVERVIEW OF LAE CITY & THE CONCERNING WASTE ISSUE
The city of Lae has been prominent as the industrial hub of Papua New Guinea. It is located in the Huon Gulf, approximately South Easterly of the mainland New Guinea. The area upon which the city lies boast of flora of varying species, lush green vegetation and a tropical wet season that evolves almost the entire calendar year.
Since inception of the country's independence in the year 1975 and decades before that, Morobe Province through its township of Lae has had direct impact in its prerequisite as a gateway to nation building, a transit of development material movement into the inter lands and Island provinces of Papua New Guinea.
As such, the city became prone to associated unsolicited products that entered and either transited or remained through this development and human activity. For it is eminent that as the industrial hub of the nation, Lae city was subjected to the remaining negatives that aftermath the developments, an activity that has consequences dire to the surrounding environment. Thus to date, Lae city has suffered to an amounting level where the once green lush vegetation, the flora and fauna and the physical environment that once had the city of Lae to be hold has now been defaced by improper waste disposals.
These wastes have been identified to be brought about by industrial developing activity and human err.
Due to such environmental abuse, health and hygiene has drastically declined resulting in avoidable diseases, directly resulting in environmental defacing. Mental cognition in time decline to negativity resulting in practices that erred to ethical and moral standards.
Compounding, both the habitat and its occupants suffered.
Thus a proper analytical, technical and easy to approach Waste Management approach had to be derived to address this issue of major concern that has been subject to blind eyeing for a number of years.
