Western Cape government gives City of Cape Town 'serious warning' to clean up Dunoon
The City of Cape Town is on a mission to clean up filthy Dunoon.
Stock image of garbage lying next to a bin on a city sidewalk. Picture: Pixabay.com
Lester Kiewit speaks with Barbara October, GroundUp deputy editor.
Listen below.
The overcrowded community of Dunoon has been suffering with streets littered with mountains of waste.
Dunoon is a site of chronic dumping, leading to health and environmental concerns, and the spaces along the N7 and parks in the community are filled with rubbish.
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The Western Cape Environmental Affairs Department has given the City of Cape Town 30 days to execute a clean-up operation and put forward a waste management plan.
“This pre-directive is ultimately a serious warning to the City to clean up the area and the spaces along the N7.”
- Barbara October, Deputy editor - GroundUp
The City announced that from the start of September, rubbish collection in Dunoon would increase to three times a week.
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