Possible service disruption

Pikitup, the City of Johannesburg’s waste management company announced today (6 October) that all its services, including household refuse collection, recyclables, bulk, dailies and landfill sites, might be impacted negatively due to a national protected march called by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). This march will mark the International Day for Decent Work.

Jacky Mashapu, Pikitup spokesperson said, “We anticipate that the majority of Pikitup’s workforce, who are members of the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) – a Cosatu affiliate – might heed the call to join the march tomorrow. Residents and business owners whose collection day falls on Friday, 7 October need to put out their waste as normal.”

According to Mashapu if the waste is not collected on Friday, due to this march, Pikitup does have a contingency plan to ensure the inconvenience will be sorted out on Saturday (8 October). An appeal is sent out to residents and businesses to put out their bins for collection on Saturday.

Mashapu concludes, “We also urge residents and business owners to be responsible and desist from illegally dumping waste, but instead utilise the strategically located 42 garden refuse sites in disposing of small quantities of any form of waste, free of charge. All these garden refuse sites will be open on Saturday from 8am to 1pm. The City of Johannesburg is your home, don’t trash it.”

For more information contact Jacky Mashapu on 087 357 1193 or at jackymashapu@pikitup.co.za.

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