DURBANVILLE
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Woensdag 21 Maart 2012
) City rolls out more bins for free
Recycling in phase two ESMÉ ERASMUS
The poor participation of residents in the City of Cape Town’s Green Bin pilot project Think Twice, has urged the City now to deliver green bins to non-participants’ homes in a desperate attempt to save the day. Of the about 44 000 households in the areas north of the N1 – from Bellville east of the Tygerberg Hills to Durbanville, Brackenfell and Kraaifontein and up to, but excluding the Kraaifontein smallholdings – that were invited to take part in the recycling project, only about 18 000 collected their bins since it kicked off in August last year. At the same time the city plans to roll out the second phase of the project to another 42 000 households south of the N1. This includes all households east of the R300, north of Old Paarl Road, excluding Brackenfell and Okavango Park Industria. The suburbs included are: Arauna, Belmont Park, Bracken Heights, Eden Park, Eikendal, Ferndale, Morgenster, Morgenster Heights, Peerless Park East, Peerless Park West, Scottsville, Springbok Park and St Michaels. According to a report considered by Subcouncil 7 at its monthly meeting on Monday, this “is not only much less than expected, but also negatively impacts both the sustainability of the pilot initiative and the contract’s economic viability”. To increase the participation rate, the city has since last Monday 12 March started to deliver the green lid recycling bins to homes in Van Riebeeckshof, Protea Valley, De Oude
Westhof, Kanonberg and Welgedacht. Residents will receive an envelope with forms which they can fax, post or deliver at their local municipal offices. Ian Oliver said at the subcouncil meeting the city will continue to deliver the rest of the 26 000 bins to the rest of the households in the pilot area before the end of April. These recycling bins are collected weekly by the city one work day after the official collection day of other household waste. The recycling container, as well as the collection service, is free of charge. Oliver said the ideal would be that people use a large bin for their recyclable waste and a smaller bin for their normal waste. “The small green lid bins are full in no time, because people are also not flattening their waste enough,” he said. According to Oliver the contractor, WastePlan, only gets paid for every bin that is scanned and cleaned. Bins that are not scanned, are not paid for. “Plastic bags are put out to help develop a culture of recycling,” he said. A recycling expo was also presented a week ago by community organisations in collaboration with WastePlan and the city’s solid waste department to inject enthusiasm into the project. (See more photos on page 26) Residents in the pilot project may still collect their bins from their closest municipal offices in Durbanville, Kraaifontein or the Bloemhof municipal offices in Bloemhof Street, Bellville. The 130-litre recycling bins easily fit onto the back seat of even smaller cars.
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“It is not only much less than expected, but also negatively impacts both the sustainability of the pilot initiative and the contract’s economic via bility”
Although his face might not show it, Dixie the basset hound was delighted to be part of the SPCA Woefie Wandel that was held at the Nitida wine farm on Sunday. Dixie belongs to Antonette and Duané (four) Knoetze from Durbanville. Photo: Leon Steenkamp