Illegal Dumping is one of the most despicable and costliest practices of educated and uneducated society in this country.
In this day and age when refuse is collected regularly from homes, dustbins are provided in many areas of the CBD, in parks and on street corners, there should be no need for people to thoughtlessly pollute their environment by just dropping their refuse wherever they are, throwing it out of their car windows or hiding it under bushes.
I am not sure if this is just a lack of education or a form of rebellion. Suffice it to say that our towns and open spaces often look disgusting.
It is even worse when businesses and individuals with truckloads of debris totally ignore the fact that there are transfer stations and dumping grounds where they can offload their rubble, very often free of charge. So as not to travel a few kilometers further, they look for a convenient spot to offload their rubbish taking no notice of the environment.
Are they totally unaware that this causes pollution and rodent infestation? I don’t think so. …They just don’t care!
While I am not exonerating Council from having to keep the environment clean, I would like to point out that the cleaning up of illegal dumping is costing this metro millions every year and ultimately the community must foot the bill.
Ward Councillor Bruna Haipel
