The EMM wanted to eliminate some operational and service delivery inefficiencies.
They do not mention what these inefficiencies were.
They wanted to enhance legislative compliance with regard to service standards and cost reflectiveness (probably should be effectiveness) of the Waste Management Service’s tariff structure.
Again, they do not explain what the tariff structure of Waste Management Services is or was.
They do not mention what the legislative compliance with regard to service standards is or was.
Does the Weltevreden Landfill Site comply with the legislative standards?
Has any of this been done with input from the community and consultation with the community (look at the Sanral fiasco)?
Only 240L bins supplied by EMM will be emptied — do they realise that, with time, these EMM emblems will eventually fade away?
No additional refuse bags, branches or any form of refuse that is not inside the bin or fits exactly in the bin will be removed and one can apply to Waste Management for extra bins at extra costs.
What if refuse piles up when collectors go on strike or miss a week — will all refuse be collected next time around?
Why do the collectors send one person ahead, who then drags all the bins to one point at the end of the street for collection (and never returns them to the original positions from which they were dragged, thus creating an even bigger chance of them being stolen).
They also take the bags out of the bins so they can throw them into the dump truck when the wonderful dump system of the truck is out of commission, or because it is easier to load, thus making a mockery of the reason for the bin.
This way they also do not know how much refuse comes from one household.
Will the collectors clean up the rubbish they spill from emptying the bins or the bags they tear when they collect the waste?
What happens when the rubbish scroungers come around, take bags out of the bin for scrounging and never put them back in the bin before collection; will they also then not remove that rubbish bag, which was no fault of the tax-paying citizen?
How long does it take before one receives another bin after the one you placed out for collection has been stolen?
Will the refuse of such a taxpaying household be collected while they wait for a new bin?
Will the council publish the audited amount of money gathered from the sale of rubbish wheelie bins?
Compactable garden refuse can also be disposed of free of charge at any of the mini garden disposal sites in Brakpan.
Will they improve the roads for easier access for those without 4×4 vehicles?
Will they cut the sidewalk lawns of all homesteads on a weekly basis, as it is part of the municipality’s and not the homeowner’s property, as they used to in the bad old days (as one is and will be fined for cutting/pruning branches off trees on one’s sidewalk)?
Please – reduce, re-use and recycle where possible.
I placed all my tins, glass and plastic in separate bags at one stage, but, never saw the refuse collectors make a distinction between any of them, just piling them all into the garbage truck in one heap.
There is no system for recycling within the Ekurhuleni Waste Collection methods and disposals.
These are empty words by incompetent salary-eating bureaucrats, making empty speeches and promises at expensive tax paid for functions.
Will the waste collector workforce’s salary be halved because their workload has been halved?
If I ask my CEO to take away some of my responsibilities he/she will also want to take away some of my salary.
Does the wheelie bin rule also apply to Vosloorus, Tsakane, KwaThema, etc., (and not just formerly white townships?), and, please publish the rate of payment received for rates and taxes, refuse removal, etc., from these townships.
Solution for hygienic collection — why does the municipality not legislate that rubbish bags must be placed on the sidewalks of houses on erected structures, so that dogs and cats cannot tear at them?
The only problem will then be if rubbish scroungers take them down from the installation to scrounge through the rubbish and then do not replace them.
Ask that rubbish like plastic, glass and tin are placed in different coloured bags and then also collect these in a separate way for recycling.
This is a modern world, where man has walked on the moon and we have landed a spacecraft on an asteroid, but we cannot collect recycled matter in an orderly fashion?
