Unsafe Recycling

The is a lot of Unsafe recycling in the township called movhango the new township in vaal triangle in Vanderbijlpark Gauteng Province. The waste pickers goes arround in the communities to collect bottles and plastics and boxes in the informal settlement, bophelong and in Vanderbiljpark. This pickers have their own unfenced yard which they use to break the bottles using bare hand, without wearing any protection which is not safe for their healthy. Community of this areas complains about government not being unable to create jobs opportunities and they say this is the only way they are surving because they have to feed their family.They have asked government to provide them with sides and equipment,and the training while have pick up the waste from their dustbins and streets,what makes this community angry is that when they ask help from government,by means of writing the proposal so that the government can help them,municipality refuse to help them they says they must help themself the is no money.around street corners even insides the yards the are lots of bottles,tins,papers,plastics that they sort it and they like to sell them to make a living,the problem is they use hammers,axes,to break bottles into pioeces,and pack it in the huge bags,so when they money to hire a transport to sell their goods to the legal recyclers such,manpack,collectacan so they feel that this comanies dont goive enough to them even that their staff,not safe because they are just in the open spacew every one take anything they like,theft take willbarrow to steal the goods,to sell to a small recyclers called maseven,is also ascrapyards and now their worry is that they try to accommodate the big staff,they cant because they dont have safe place.
A sad stories about Mr abel Ramogale at extension 5 says that because of not having protective clothing,sunglases,and proper equipment to use,today he is blind on the left eye because of he breaks the bottles,the pieces of bottles comes inside his eyes he was trying to put bread on the table for his kids,and he belives government that if you try to do something they will contibute towards it,what you already started,believe me that government preached empty promises,they build two buildngs,where people of bophelong dump in it,while they say is the municipality is property,when we ask for those building to use it.