Last Tuesday evening members of the Cleansing Services Department spent two hours removing around 200 items, including refrigerators, tyres and car parts that were dumped illegally next to the hunter’s chapel, further up from Mount Carmel Hospital.

At around 9.30pm on Tuesday, someone lodged a complaint on the CSD free phone line regarding a large amount of refuse that had been dumped at the side of the road leading to Rabat from Attard, near the hunter’s chapel slightly further up from Mount Carmel Hospital.

Department employees were immediately sent on site, where they spent the next two hours clearing the debris that included refrigerators, tyres and car parts.

When they were finished, the area was clean and any hazard had been removed.

The waste was temporarily stored at the department headquarters in Kordin until it could be disposed of in the correct manner.

This irresponsible act was committed just hours after the Resources and Infrastructure Ministry ended its information campaign on the thousands spent to clean areas where illegal dumping takes place.

This year over Lm400,000 was spent to collect around 11,200 tonnes of waste from valleys and arterial roads.

Minister Ninu Zammit condemned this behaviour and appealed to anyone who has any information on who may have dumped this material to contact the authorities concerned.