GRATEFUL Van Riebeeck Park resident writes:
Well done to Clr Gideon van Zyl (Ward 15) for the informative general advice, tips and other information supplied to Kempton Express about the wheelie bins, and to Kempton Express for publishing it.
I am sure many residents found it as useful as I have.
Also read:
• Wheelie bins: everything you should know
• Hierdie nuwe vullishouers gaan nie werk
However, my issue is with the plastic ‘bag pickers’. It is now suggested that there is a way to prevent them from becoming ‘bin pickers’ instead.
Surely many residents have been trying for years to discourage the waste picker practice? Now, as I understand it, residents are advised to separate recyclables from general household rubbish – all very commendable – by placing recyclable items alongside their wheelie bin.
These items will be alongside the wheelie bin and not in it. If no-one comes to “pick” these the municipality will not remove such items. Surely this would thus be encouraging the very practice that many have been trying to discourage.
Residents will then end up taking their recyclables bags back inside their property or simply leave them on the pavement, because no-one (neither picker nor municipality) has removed them.
And the items will probably, in due course, end up inside the wheelie bin to ensure their removal which would in turn defeat the recycling objective.
We all understand and accept that, in these economic times, pickers do whatever they can to try to earn a few Rands here and there. To the best of my knowledge, the green and white recycling bags we get from Ronnie Recycling don’t cover all possible recyclable items.
