THURSDAY is usually the collection day for rubbish dustbins in Eden Park. For years, the known pattern or work method was that one EMM worker would assemble all the dustbins at one place in the street.
After the emptying of the dustbins and the truck moving to the next group of dustbins, two workers would then return each empty dustbin to the appropriate gate or house number painted on the dustbin. The two workers would just keep following the truck in every street.
But now, claim some residents, this is no longer the case since a new group took over the service a couple of months ago. They just empty the rubbish dustbins and abandon them at the far corner of the street. This is frustrating the majority of the residents.
“This nonsense must stop,” said Suzie Estrice. “We don’t work for the Ekurhuleni council. I am tired of taking a risk of leaving my small grandchildren in the house to run after a dustbin. While fetching a dustbin at the far corner of the street, anything drastic can happen at my house or to my kids.”
“EMM must bring back the workers who worked on the truck before,” said another lady, who wishes not to be named. “With them, we did not have to run after the truck. They leave the dustbins so far and if we don’t retrieve them quickly, the nyaope boys will steal them. We are tired of this weekly unpaid job we have to do.”
The EMM did not respond to this issue in time for publishing.
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