Health Officials Plan Spring Reminder About Flies in Trash
The Hamilton Board of health plan a mailing this spring to reminder residents about the chance of maggots and flies in their trash.
Keeping trash for up to two weeks could cause greater occurrences of flies and maggots, according to a study done in Spokane, Wash. And based on that data, the Hamilton Board of Health decided Wednesday it plans to launch a public education campaign this spring to alert residents of the possibility of flies and maggots in the trash and offer tips to avoid it. "They did find a greater incidence of flies," said Board of Health Chairman Lindle Willnow said about the study from out west. The topic of the health concern of trash collection every other week had been on the board's agenda last fall but had been tabled as the board and Health Department grappled with mosquitoes infected with Eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile Virus and the …
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Al Phillips
1:19 pm on Sunday, February 3, 2013
Are you kidding? Learn how to recycle and there will be no problem. My trash is never full at every two weeks cause I recycle most of my trash and I have three kids. Al more ›