North residents fed up with growing illegal dumpsites
Illegal dumping poses environmental and health risks and creates an unpleasant and unhealthy living environment for residents.
Pretoria North residents continue to raise concerns as they feel helpless due to the number of illegal dumpsites growing in their community.
Residents have voiced that illegal dumping poses environmental and health risks and creates an unpleasant and unhealthy living environment in the north of Pretoria.
Danie Theron Street resident Peter Jacobusen said the illegal dumping problem keeps on getting bigger each day.
“I check the open field each day and I see it growing daily.
This thing is now becoming normality, the rubbish is piling up, and the smell is unbearable.
People are paying for services and the municipality pushes you to pay but is taking time to render services.”
Ward 2 councillor Quentin Meyer said illegal dumping has been ongoing for some time and some organisations have been working around the clock to keep the community clean.
“The clean-up campaigns are there to make this place look great again.
The organisation cannot clean up all the illegal dumping sites because you clean today and tomorrow a new dumping site opened,” said Meyer.
Meyer said these illegal dumpsites set back the ward’s mission of returning the area to its former glory.
“Our biggest hotspots are the corner of Stasie and Koos de la Rey, the corner of Stasie and Emily Hobhouse, Gwendolen and Fay and Gwendolen Road in Dorandia.”
Residents have called on the municipality to do something about these illegal dumping spots because people have medical conditions.
Previously, Tshwane spokesperson Lindela Mashigo said due to limited resources, the metro’s environment and agriculture department has created a schedule to clear illegal dumps.
“The department also runs cleaning campaigns through the Re Kaofela programme incorporating education and awareness.
The department has allocated EPWP workers to do litter picking daily,” said Mashigo.
He said that waste collection in Dorandia, Gwendolen Street and Pretoria North is on Wednesdays.
“If residents do not use the municipal channels to apply for waste containers, inadequate waste storage supposedly results in illegal dumping.”
Mashigo said a R5 000 fine is payable should a resident be caught dumping illegally.
He said north residents can find dumpsites in Dorandia at Daan Der Wet Nel Avenue and Magalieskruin Koorsboom Avenue in Sinoville.
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