Minister Barbara Creecy launches National Waste Management Fleet in Collins Chabane Local Municipality, Limpopo

Minister Barbara Creecy launches National Waste Management Fleet worth R44-5 Million in Collins Chabane Local Municipality, Limpopo

The National Waste Management Strategy was revised in 2020 and focuses on: improving household waste collection; diverting waste from landfills; promoting a circular economy and promoting community awareness of the effects of illegal dumping on their own health and on the environment.

"To achieve the goals of this strategy, all stakeholders must play their part: national and provincial government must support municipalities to develop local integrated waste management strategies. We must ensure our landfills comply with the regulatory environment and waste does not leach into ground water or into the soil. We must invest in the yellow fleet and every year we must ensure more and more homes have access to safe waste disposal," says Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy.

She added that the private sector must promote the circular economy and divert waste from landfills as government has already set up the regulatory environment for extended producer responsibility schemes to promote re-cycling in the packaging, electronics and lighting industries with recent regulations gazetted for new sectors such as used oil and pesticides. Government and the private sector must work with waste reclaimers so that we build a dignified waste reclaiming industry that promotes waste diversion from landfills, promotes the circular economy and gives a decent livelihood to the tens of thousands of men and women who do the daily back-breaking work of the recycling industry.

To improve waste management in municipalities, the Department is assisting in the development of their Integrated Waste Management Plans, and training on sustainable waste management practices. We have also co-operated with National Treasury and the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) to change the Municipal Infrastructure Grant policy so that municipalities can now access this grant to fund their yellow fleet.

To highlight and raise awareness on the amendments of the Municipal Infrastructure Grant policy, the Department has used R44.5-million of our own money to provide 24 vehicles to 20 municipalities across the country. The vehicles include Skip Loader Trucks, Front End Loaders, compactor trucks, TLBs and other trucks required to transport waste within these areas.

Today, Collins Chabane Local Municipality received a compactor truck and a skip loader, together valued at more than R5 million to assist in waste collection and the processing of waste at landfill. Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality received a waste compactor truck and a TLB truck with a combined value of nearly R4-million.

20 municipalities benefitted (list of beneficiary municipalities is in Table 1 below):

Table1: Fleet purchased for 20 Local Municipalities

PROVINCE	MUNICIPALITY	ITEM DESCRIPTION	QUANTITY	COST
MPUMALANGA	Mbombela	1x Compactor Truck	2	R2 551 881,81
MPUMALANGA	Mbombela	1x Skip Loader Truck		R2 849 049,05
MPUMALANGA	Bushbuckridge	1x Compactor Truck	2	R2 551 881,81
MPUMALANGA	Bushbuckridge	1x Skip Loader Truck		R2 849 049,05
LIMPOPO	Ba-Phalaborwa	1x Compactor Truck	2	R2 849 049,05
LIMPOPO	Ba-Phalaborwa	1x Tractor Loader Backhoe (TLB)		R1 065 211,87
LIMPOPO	Collins Chabane	1x Compactor Truck	2	R2 551 881,81
LIMPOPO	Collins Chabane	1x Skip Loader Truck		R2 849 049,05
WESTERN CAPE	Matzikama	1x Skip Loader Truck	1	R2 186 150,00
WESTERN CAPE	Cederberg	1x Skip Loader Truck	1	R2 849 049,05
FREE STATE	Masilonyana	1x Compactor Truck	1	R2 849 049,05
FREE STATE	Matjhabeng	1x Compactor Truck	1	R2 551 881,81
FREE STATE	Metsimoholo	1x Tractor Loader Backhoe (TLB)	1	R1 065 211,87
GAUTENG	Merafong	1x Skip loader Truck	1	R2 849 049,05
GAUTENG	Rand West City	1x Front End Loader (FEL)	1	R1 003 124,20
EASTERN CAPE	Makana	1x Skip loader Truck	1	R2 849 049,05
KWAZULU-NATAL	Ray Nkonyeni	1x Tractor Loader Backhoe (TLB)	1	R1 065 211,87
KWAZULU-NATAL	Umhlabuyalingana	1x Tractor Loader Backhoe (TLB)	1	R1 065 211,87
KWAZULU-NATAL	Dannhauser	1x Front End Loader (FEL)	1	R1 065 211,87
NORTHERN CAPE	Emthanjeni	1x Tractor Loader Backhoe (TLB)	1	R1 065 211,87
NORTHERN CAPE	Dawid Kruiper	1x Front End Loader (FEL)	1	R1 003 124,20
NORTHERN CAPE	Kai Garib	1x Front End Loader (FEL)	1	R1 003 124,20
NORTH WEST	Moses Kotane	1x Front End Loader (FEL)	1	R1 003 124,20
NORTH WEST	Ramotshere Moiloa	1x Front End Loader (FEL)	1	R1 003 124,20
TOTAL	20 Municipalities			R44 586 713,46

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