Public notice: Residents up in arms over landfill payment

Residents of the city and operators of refuse removal businesses are up in arms about the municipality's intention to require payment of fees for the dumping of garden and building refuse at the local authority's landfill sites at Aganang and Weltevreden off the Silicon Road.

- Barry Viljoen

The Weltevreden landfill site off the Silicon Road provides dumping facilities for residents.

This follows after the municipality recently confronted users of the facilities with notices to the effect that fees will be charged for the use of the facilities with effect from October 1.

"This is not fair. We are rendering a service that the municipality has to provide and users are already paying for it," an operator said and added that this new levy will inflate the operating costs of service providers while their clients are merely attempting to keep the city clean. It will also encourage illegal dumping.