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Ugu District IWMP Implementation Per Local Municipality
Umzumbe Local Municipality renders its waste management services in wards 2, 4, 10, 16 and 17. However, these wards do not receive the service in totality, rather through infrastructure that is placed (skips) at strategic points. For example, in ward 16, the collection point is Dustin Farrell TB hospital which caters for that vicinity. In ward 10 the service and infrastructure are limited to the Turton Taxi rank area. Ward 4 is the St Faith’s area where there is public transport and commuter activity and in the business centre of Phungashe, Ward 2. Lastly, ward 16 is an administrative centre where government buildings are located. There are informal recycling activities taking place in certain areas by few aspirant informal businesses.
Education on waste minimization is an ongoing activity although aspirant recyclers get challenged in terms of the market and end up seeking other opportunities in Ray Nkonyeni Municipality. As Umzumbe does not have its own landfill site, they have an agreement to dispose of its waste at Umdoni Municipality’s Humberdale landfill site, which is a formal and legal facility. Umuziwabantu’s waste management service has improved since the adoption of the IWMP and the municipality has taken advantage of the opportunity extended to it by the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) through funding for the Youth Jobs in Waste project. It assisted in the waste collection service and information management for 3 years through temporary employment of post matric youth.
The department is further funding the municipality for the development of its local IWMP. However, as a result of lack of improvement in the infrastructure and collection, the service is only limited to ward 3, which is the urban strip of Umuziwabantu. There is one landfill site that is not formalised yet, where all collection is disposed. As part of the IWMP development and status quo establishment, DEA conducted a survey of waste stream for categorisation purposes and found that the best managed waste in Umuziwabantu is the health care risk waste.
The health facilities fully comply with responsible disposal of HCRW. Umdoni collects waste mostly in the urban coastal strip and a few rural areas of Amandawe, Dududu and some parts of informal Umzinto. Recycling is mostly taking place in a few urban areas through municipal and community driven initiatives. Schools are a great part of waste management initiatives. Humberdale landfill site is the formal and legal site of Umdoni municipality, which has been extended to Phase through Environmental Protection and Infrastructure funding from the Department of Environmental Affairs. Youth Jobs in Waste was also implemented in Umdoni municipality.
While there is no local IWMP for Umdoni municipality, they rely on the high level IWMP of Ugu DM. With respect to waste management, Ray Nkonyeni municipality is the most advanced local municipality in terms of policy, strategy, information management, operations and financial allocation. Like other local municipalities, most coverage of the waste collection services is still in the urban coastal strip. Waste services is focused on the urban coastal strip with 26.6% of households receiving weekly waste collection. The majority (60.1%) utilise their own refuse dump and 5% having no facility to dispose of waste. The municipality thus conducts a level 4 service for the coastal areas and a level 3/4 in 21 other wards that are densely populated areas/townships. The combined level of service comprises both awareness campaigns, supervision and provision of refuse bags with recyclable waste collected. Upliftment frequencies range from weekly to quarterly. The coverage of service delivery is thus 69.4% of the municipality.
3.2.9 Spatial and Environment Trend Analysis
The situational analysis undertaken above culminated in the identification of a few spatial and environment trends which the municipality needs to redress, address and mitigate. These trends are dissected below by undertaking a brief cause and effect analysis. The understanding of their causes and implications can assist in mitigating their effects or in terms of prioritisation. Table 3.4.1 below provides an indication of the typology of the trend and the nature of responses that should be employed.
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