Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has turned down an application by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Support Unit seeking free solid waste disposal at councils’ sanitary landfill.
BY NQOBANI NDLOVU Sanitary landfills are sites for the disposal of waste materials and are the oldest form of waste treatment.
They are a high-level and expensive form of waste disposal and isolation to protect public health, reduce land pollution and pollution of underground and surface water bodies.
However, latest council minutes show the ZRP Support Unit at Fairbridge camp wrote to the council requesting free solid waste disposal at Richmond sanitary landfill.
In the letter copied to the council director of health services, Zanele Hwalima, the ZRP said it faced challenges in disposing its solid waste, hence approaching the BCC.
“The ZRP Support Unit Fairbridge is located 15km out of Bulawayo along Bulawayo-Harare Road. This District is requesting through your high office that we dispose our solid waste at Richmond dumping site free of charge. “We are facing challenges in disposing our solid waste, hence thus requesting your office since we are facing challenges of funds as well,” the ZRP letter reads.
However, council turned down the request on the grounds that landfill operations were costly and that ZRP Fairbridge did not fall under the BCC jurisdiction, but Umguza Rural District Council (RDC).
“It was noted that ZRP Support Unit Fairbridge was not a ratepayer of this city as they were located within the Umguza RDC area though it was appreciated that in times of need they would service the City of Bulawayo.
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“Council was also facing similar financial challenges as the applicant and landfill operations were costly. This application was, therefore, not supported. It was resolved to recommend that the application for free disposal of waste at Richmond sanitary landfill be not supported for reasons stated in the report above,” the minutes read.
