The DA in eThekwini municipality has reliably learned that the city’s multi-million-rand orange bag -recycling programme has completely collapsed. There is currently no delivery, no collection of orange bags, and no contingency plan in place.
The DA will write to the Chairperson of the Human Settlement and Infrastructure Committee, under which DSW falls, Councillor Mvubu of the EFF, requesting that he summon the Acting Head of DSW, Noluthando Magewu, and Supply Chain Management to a special meeting to provide an update on the recycling programme and the true state of DSW.
The municipality is reportedly in the process of revising the programme, according to information obtained by the DA. The data also discloses that a number of existing collection companies have ceased operations because they have not been paid by the municipality.
Since 2015, the programme has encountered issues such as the non-delivery and non-collection of orange bags, inconsistencies in the procurement process, and the nomination of companies to supply orange bags that lacked the necessary expertise and technical understanding.
In the same way that the refuse management in the city is fast deteriorating, it is now clearer than ever before that this much-needed recycling programme forms part of the spectacular failures of the ANC government in the city.
The failure of the recycling programme has negatively affected the city’s waste management and recycling efforts as a whole. The condition of our landfill site is another imminent catastrophe, and the promotion of recycling ensures that not all waste ends up in the landfill but is recycled.