Pikitup Garden Site Rules for residents
When it comes to the garden refuse, branches must be in 1 meter in length and the thickness of it must not exceed 40mm.
Garden site attendant, Johnny Ottoway shares with us what is and what is not allowed at the Pikitup Garden Sites in our communities. Ottoway is an assistant at the Ashburton Garden Site in Riverlea.
“I have been working here for about six years now. Since I came here, I have come to notice that people are always bringing their bins here and according to my job description, it does not allow me to accept the bins because residents are paying rates and taxes for Pikitup to collect their waste in their streets.
“I had a few issues with residents because they want to empty their bins in the site.”
According to Ottoway, they do allow residents to empty out their bins when Pikitup is on strike.
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“If a person comes with garden refuse and maybe a few bags of house waste then I can accept that with the garden refuse.
“As this is a garden site, we only handle garden refuse and then we have two bins for rubbles, we supposed to take one wheelbarrow but we allow two here at our site. Some people come here with a bakkie full of building rubble and want us to offload it for them. We allow two wheelbarrows full of rubble a day,” shared Ottoway.
When it comes to the garden refuse, branches must be in 1 meter in length and the thickness of it must not exceed 40mm.
Ottoway further explained: “The reason why we take 40mm and below is that we cannot fit into the trucks, it either breaks the trucks or it can become a safety hazard to staff, so we have to be careful of what logs we put into the trucks.”
“I have a board which indicates that no food waste and animal faeces are allowed because we have people who are doing recycling, and sometimes they get into the bins to look for the plastic bottles and glass items, and that type of waste is not healthy for them.”
Ottoway shared that the staff would just like respect to work both ways with residents.
“Sometimes there are arguments and the residents start to swear us. Sometimes we help residents out and allow them to offload their bins but we tell them that its only for that day but then a few days go by and they will bring their bins again, and because we did a favour for them the previously, they expect it again and when we refuse, they will want to fight with us.”
“If residents have a bakkie load of the waste they can go to the landfill sites, they will allow it.
“We have our landfill sites in Dobsonville, Eldorado Park and there’s one in Booysens, they take big loads of everything and we have seven garden sites under the Waterval Pikitup Depot.”
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