Pikitup will continue its waste collection service as usual throughout the festive season

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No holiday for Pikitup Pikitup will collect refuse as usual throughout the festive season holidays, except on Christmas Day, when bin men will take a well-earned break. December 12, 2006 By Anish Abraham RUBBISH will be collected as usual over the festive season, except on Christmas Day. According to Marius de Villiers, Pikitup's manager for communications, the city-owned waste management company would operate as usual throughout the upcoming holidays, with the exception of Monday, 25 December. It would collect refuse on the other public holidays during the month, namely the Day of Reconciliation (16 December), the Day of Goodwill (26 December) and New Year's Day (1 January 2007). Services still being provided on these days included domestic waste collection, cleaning activities in the inner city, bulk collection services, wet waste and garden site and landfill site services. "All residents whose waste is collected on Mondays should take out their bins for collection on Saturday, 23 December by 7am," he said. Regular Monday removal services would return from New Year's Day, Monday 1 January, onwards. All landfill sites and garden sites would be closed on Christmas Day, while the Panorama Composting Plant would be closed from 25 December until 2 January 2007. Regarding the Lonehill Curbside Recycling Project, De Villiers said that there would be no collection of recyclable waste on 25 December and 1 January. Collection of recyclable waste would begin again on 8 January 2007. "To ensure that residents are aware of the change, Pikitup will also be distributing pamphlets, notifying them of the provisional adjustment to the collection schedule," he said. For queries or more information contact the Pikitup call centre on 011 712 5200 or Joburg Connect on 011 375 5555. Permission to use web site material Publishers may use material from this site free of charge, as long as: Credit is given to either the "City of Johannesburg website (www.joburg.org.za)" or to "Johannesburg News Agency (www.joburg.org.za)"; If the article is used online, a link is provided to the original article on this website; The name of the article's author is acknowledged; The webmaster is informed of how and where the material is used (fill in this brief online form). Johannesburg News Agency is operated by BIG Media at 011-484-1400 Print this Page E-mail this article to a friend Help using Joburg.org.za