While many businesses and industries have ground to a halt during the novel coronavirus pandemic, garbage collection has not, and some are concerned that sanitation workers aren’t being properly protected.
Michael Faddoul owns and operates A-Plus Garbage Removal, which offers waste removal for residential and commercial buildings.
Right now, his small team of five services 130 sites across the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), mostly restaurants, office and apartment buildings. “We actually pick up the physical bag and throw it in the back of the truck, and that’s where the fear is coming in for me and my team,” says Faddoul. “Some spots we go to, the bags are not tied at all, there’s loose garbage in the bin — Kleenexes, gloves — and