Various residents are baffled by an increase to the sum they have to cough up for the removal of refuse, in one case, nearly R20 has been added to tax for refuse removal.
A CW5 couple that represents numerous residents has always paid R141 and cents. They now have to pay more than R160 and they don’t know why. They guess it’s the additional cost of removal by municipal wheelie bin, but in some cases wheelie-bins haven’t been parcelled out. A question posed by a woman was – who pays in the event of a municipal wheelie bin getting stolen from where it sits in the street pending refuse removal? Another resident said her impression is that residents pay to replace a stolen wheelie bin. Wheelie bins are ideal for conveying plastic, metal and other recyclable detritus.
A resident complaining about his water/lights bill said refuse was just accumulating in his wheelie bin because there was a shortage of municipal trucks.
