🚛♻️ Meet Amos Vuma, the dedicated waste picker of Johannesburg 🌆🛒 For the past 10 years, he has braved the perils of traffic six days a week, every week of the year. 🚦🚧 TheCitizenNews Read more here ⬇️
We see them everywhere, pulling heavily loaded street trolleys piled with plastic bottles, paper, cardboard and recyclables. Waste pickers are, at times, the Achilles heel for many motorists who believe the road was tarred for the exclusive use of their wheels. Six days a week, 52 weeks per year Johannesburg waste picker Amos Vuma has faced the perils of traffic six days a week, 52 weeks of the year.
For a decade-and-a-half, Vuma’s days have started at four in the morning, and he gets to knock off at the same time in the afternoon as offices shut their doors. It’s a long day, but waste picking can be profitable.Vuma employs two junior pickers, salaries them and still takes home about R4 000 weekly. That’s almost triple what he said some of his family members earn in the formal sector as cashiers, shelf packers and waiters.
“I pack my bakkie to the brim,” said Vuma. It takes about two hours to go through a street’s wheelie bins.pull over for overloading,” he laughed.Mr Vuma became his ticket to strengthening his business. He’s had it for about five years after his brother-in-law lent him the shortfall in cash he needed.
Recycling centres do a brisk trade with thousands of trolleys berthing, offloading and heading off again to collect more rubbish.
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