GALLERY and VIDEO: Residents dump their garbage illegally due to strike
ALLENS NEK– Residents have resorted to dumping their waste on an illegal site in a bid to eradicate it from their property.
Hundreds of Pikitup workers flocked the streets in Braamfontein inner City in an illegal strike on 17 November, after they failed to collect trash and clean the streets.
The illegal strike resulted in residents around Johannesburg being left with rubbish waste pilling up in their backyards due to the lack of service delivery.
Some residents, in a desperate attempt to get rid of the their increasing household rubbish, have resorted to dumping their waste illegally in Allen’s Nek.
The illegal dumping site’s waste is gradually increasing by the day where residents from surrounding areas come with their waste and openly dump their garbage in the open space on Pranticole Avenue.
An angry Allen’s Nek resident, Joachim Koekemoer said he noticed the waste Wednesday morning [on 25 November] where he literally saw people coming with their cars and dumping a number of black plastics filled with waste.
“The smell and mess affect my family’s daily lives. I feel that during the strike they should outsource a company that can provide residents with a temporary waste collection service as an alternative,” Koekemoer said.
Concerned resident Shane Balgobind said he called the Honeydew Police Station after he had written down the registration numbers of residents dumping their garbage at the illegal site.
Ward 126 Councillor Mike Tonkin said he received a complaint from a concerned resident on 26 November about the worsening mess and smell.
“I can only do what I’m permitted to do and can only offer assistance where I can. I have escalated the issue to the Johannesburg Metro Police Service in order to stop residents from dumping their household and garden waste at the site. I have also engaged with Pikitup who failed to tell me when the strike will end,” Tonkin said.
He advised residents to put their garbage in black plastics and keep them till the strike ends.
Details: Ward 126 Councillor Mike Tonkin, 082 564 0160; Pikitup, 011 375 5918.
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