Dumping site closes early
Residents unhappy with service at the garden refuse dumping sites in the west of Pretoria.
Irregular business hours at the dumping site in Phillip Nel Park have been inconvenient to residents.
They have complained about often finding the dumping site closed.
Resident, Ren Joubert said he had often been to the dumping site and found it closed.
“It was not the first time that I drove all the way to two dumping sites near my house and find the gates closed. Recently I went to the dumping site in Phillip Nel Park at 15:15 just to find the gates locked with a note on the gate ‘Closed/Gesluit’,” said Joubert.
He said it would have been better if he found a sign saying ‘Full’ and not ‘closed’ so early. He then drove to the dumping site in Mountain View and arrived there at 15:25 to find the gates closed.
“There was someone inside the site at the exit gate showing hand signs that it is full. I drove to the other side of the site and found someone there and I told the person that I could only dump my garden refuse on Saturdays or else I would dump it on the pavement,” Joubert said.
“The man said he understood my problem and that he would fix it. He said I could go ahead and dump my garden refuse there.”
Joubert said as he was about to finish dumping the last two bags when two men from the exit gate shouted at him and walked up to him to tell him that he cannot dump refuse outside the site.
“After that the entrance gate was opened and I was told to take my rubbish inside, which I refused because I was told the site is full,” he said.
Joubert said he has never had a problem at dumping sites until last year and recently.
Another resident who backed up Joubert was Simon Northling who said he had been to the Phillip Nel Park dumping site a couple of times and was turned away.
“The workers are contradicting the working hours on the gate because they knock off early,” he said.
Northling said during another visit to the site he was told it is full, although he could see a number of empty containers.
“I find this unacceptable. If the workers do not want to work until 17:45 then they should tell their bosses and have the business hours changed so that we also know when they would be working,” said Northling.
Northling and Joubert have both been sending emails to the Tshwane metro but nothing has been done to assist them.
Rekord has also sent an enquiry to Tshwane metro.
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