Buffalo City gets 12 new waste trucks as illegal dumping fight steps up
Mayor Princess Faku unveiled 10 compactor trucks, a tipper and a landfill compactor at Gonubie, and asked residents and businesses to help stop illegal dumping.
Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality has put 12 new specialised waste vehicles on the road, Mayor Princess Faku announced at a handover of the metro’s Solid Waste and Environmental Management Project at Gonubie Resort in KuGompo City.
The fleet is made up of 10 compactor trucks, one tipper truck and one landfill compactor truck. The municipality says the vehicles will strengthen its operational capacity, improve daily waste collection and support what it calls efficient and sustainable waste management services.
The acquisition forms part of Buffalo City’s efforts to improve refuse collection, combat illegal dumping and promote environmental cleanliness across its communities, according to the account published by SAnews (South African Government News Agency).
Faku framed the handover as more than a ceremony. “Today is more than a ceremonial handover of vehicles and machinery,” she said. “It is a demonstration of our commitment in building a municipality that responds to the needs of its people, restores dignity to our communities and ensures that every resident can live in a clean, healthy and safe environment.”
She also called on residents, community members and local businesses to work with the municipality against illegal dumping and to take collective responsibility for keeping neighbourhoods clean and safe, and stressed the importance of strengthening municipal resources so that waste services run reliably.
The metro said in a statement that the investment is meant to enhance refuse collection, promote responsible waste disposal and improve the quality of life of communities across the city.
The announcement does not say what the fleet cost, how collection schedules will change, which areas will be served first, or how many households and businesses the additional capacity is expected to reach. It also does not set out how the metro will measure the effect on illegal dumping. Those are the questions the metro’s own service commitments now rest on.
This report is based on the official SAnews summary of the handover, not on the municipality’s full project record. The source is SAnews (South African Government News Agency): https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/specialised-fleet-strengthen-buffalo-citys-waste-management-service
