ETHEKWINI Municipality’s Kerbside Orange Bag recycling programme has been resumed.
Head of Department at Durban Solid Waste (DSW), Raymond Rampersad, confirmed that the beleagured recycling programme is operational once more and encouraged residents to separate their paper and plastic waste for recycling. Orange bags that are properly sorted are collected on the same day as an area’s refuse collection.
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Rampersad said the distribution and collection of orange bags had also resumed and said he hoped the challenges faced by the city over recent months would be viewed as a learning curve and would help the project develop in a new direction.
Many residents who had participated in the project became frustrated when their waste was not collected and had to either send their paper and plastic to landfills with normal household refuse or take items to local recycling depots themselves.
Contact the DSW Customer Service Line on 031 311 8804 or 031 322 0780.
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