The municipality has lost at least R29 million in the last decade.
The capital city currently has four landfill sites that are active: Hatherley, Ga-Rankuwa, Bronkhorstspruit and Soshanguve.
“The income realised for previous financial years could be increased if the landfill operations were equipped with proper infrastructure such as weighbridges to support rigorous collection of billing data,” the report stated.NO WEIGHTBRIDGES A MAJOR CONCERN “Currently we are using a manual system as is highlighted on the report. On the manual system, we are making sure that our city contractors, when they submit invoices, we recover all the landfill fees before we pay them what they invoice, and also on our private customers, we have a manual system that captures the amount of waste they are bringing in and then we are sending them bills,” he said.
In the absence of a weighbridge, the municipality has been charging its customers based on the maximum capacity each vehicle can carry. “What is more important about them working actually is we are able to measure the amount of waste we are managing in the landfill so the reporting is accurate. Number two, we are able to plan in terms of budgeting in that this is the amount of waste we are receiving, and we need to budget this much so that we are to upkeep the landfill,” he said.
The report estimated R4.4 million would be needed for the repair and upgrades of each weighbridge at the landfill site.“It’s an ongoing engagement and we are promising to find a budget in these coming financial years to solve the issue,” he said.
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