Area residents around the site of a 137-unit seniors building under construction complained last month about littering after reporting Styrofoam fragments ‘snowing’ onto their properties
Styrofoam fragments snowing onto residential properties is indicative of a construction practice that’s “just not acceptable anymore,” Sudbury NDP MPP Jamie West said.
Last month, area residents began complaining about polystyrene foam fragments blowing onto their properties from the site of a six-storey Bawa Hospitality Group building currently under construction. “If you’re running your business, and you’re doing everything according to the law, are you going to incur costs that go above and beyond?”
Indeed, crews with vacuums have been seen visiting affected properties to clean up Styrofoam fragments, but residents have reported, and Sudbury.com witnessed, that they have not been successful at picking up all of the non-biodegradable material. This appears to have been the case in Sudbury, where a city spokesperson said municipal bylaws have not applied.