The closure of Mont Cuet tip due to strike action forced Island Waste to store food and other waste from hotels and restaurants at its Pointes Lane, St Andrew’s, site yesterday. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0608952)

ROTTING waste was diverted to the Pointes Lane materials-recovery facility yesterday following the closure of Mont Cuet.

Operator Island Waste’s managing director Dan Hubert said the situation had been unavoidable. ‘Our commercial customers, particularly restaurants and hotels, need their waste removed daily as a health requirement,’ he said.

‘We are endeavouring to provide a service to our customers under extremely difficult circumstances.’

He hoped the dispute between the States and public sector workers would be resolved swiftly because  the former had a monopoly on waste disposal. ‘Today demonstrates the effect that having final disposal in one pair of hands can have, both in the public and private sectors,’ he said.

‘The disruption, without prior notice, has forced us to bulk up, in covered waterproof containers, putrescent waste from our wheelie bin rounds which would normally have been taken direct to landfill.’