Mpopi maintains that his team gather at the park every morning from where they are then deployed to their designated clean-up areas, but that often transportation issues arise preventing them from working.
“The municipality introduced Clean City with no transport,” says Mpopi.
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Metro spokesman Themba Gadebe confirmed the statement and added that “the various metro solid waste depots do, however, assist where possible with the transportation of the Clean City Project employees to various work stations”.
Mpopi says that last Friday the workers waited to be picked up for the memorial service of a colleague in Bakerton but the bus didn’t show up.
Again on Tuesday workers were left stranded when the truck that was supposed to take them to Zig Zag Road went to pick up plastic in Edenvale instead.
Gadebe says workers are deployed from their respective wards and are thus responsible for the cleaning of their wards.
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“If the need arises to assist in areas far from their reporting station the relevant solid waste depot arranges for transportation,” says Gadebe.
However, Mpopi says walking from Edelweiss Park to Zig Zag Road is too far.
The Clean City Project was launched in October last year with the goal to mechanically and manually clean identified illegal dumping hot spots.
