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Friday, September 6, 2013

Mtubatuba Municipality dirtiest in district

File photo: overturned bins at Cape Vidal's fish gutting table
Having been labelled Mkhanyakude District's dirtiest municipality for some time now, Mtubatuba is taking steps to clean up its act.

 Keen to achieve its end goal of becoming known as one of the cleanest municipalities in the district, Mtubatuba held a 'Mtuba clean town summit' at Umfolozi's Protea Hotel on Thursday, 5 September. According to Environmental Affairs and Agriculture representative KP Mathenjwa, the current state of the town does nothing for tourism in the region which is home to South Africa's first World Heritage Site.

As a first step in its journey to cleanliness, Mtubatuba Municipality recently established a waste management unit which will oversee effective waste disposal. One of the biggest problems facing the municipality and its clean-up drive is illegal dumping and, unfortunately, both of the municipality's waste disposal sites, St Lucia and Northdale, are illegal dumping sites. The St Lucia site will soon be closed down. This leaves the Municipality in a quandry.

St Lucia News has, on more than one occasion, raised the question of burning at the St Lucia dumping site as well as establishing an effective recycling scheme. Unfortunately, however, these questions have continuously gone unanswered by authorities involved. The hope now is that the Mtubatuba Municipality will indeed receive adequate funding in order to clean up Mtubatuba town, establish legal dumping sites at suitable locations and implement an effective recycling scheme across the municipality. St Lucia News will not give up hope that oneday this World Heritage Site will have the same waste disposal and recycling tools that every suburb in the country enjoys.
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