Cleaning up your trash
JOBURG - DEMOCRATIC Alliance leaders recently confirmed that bin replacement charges had officially been removed from the list of City of Johannesburg tariffs.
“The bin replacement fee was stopped and now there is no charge, and no torturous process to get a new one,” said Ward 117 councillor Tim Truluck.
“It was iniquitous that residents and businesses had to pay the City to replace old, damaged and stolen bins considering that it was their model of supplying them without keeping proper records, and that we have to put them out in public streets where they can be damaged and stolen,” said Truluck.
“By putting a price on their replacement, it turned them into a commodity that was worth stealing.”
Truluck urged residents who needed new or extra dustbins to log it with the City of Joburg (Pikitup).
Residents who have had their dustbins stolen will need to report it to their nearest police station before contacting Pikitup, he explained.
Truluck stated that residents could send him their name, contact details, address, account number and reference number once lodged, for him to escalate to the correct depot or to escalate if need be.
Truluck added that residents wanting an extra bin would be levied according to property size plus VAT per bin: 300m2 at R135.75, 301 to 1 000m2 at R264.25, 1 001 to 2 000m2 at R399.76 and properties 2 000m2 and larger at R576.
Details: 011 375 5555 (option 5).
