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Gweru City Council is seeking $226 000 to buy two refuse compactors to improve service delivery. Town Clerk Ms Elizabeth Gwatipedza said her local authority was operating with obsolete refuse collection trucks and needed to buy new ones.
“We want to procure additional refuse compactors to add to the two we currently have,” she said.
“Mostly for us to acquire the compactors we get the money from residents, but this time we are borrowing from our estate accounts and we are looking at about $226 000 in foreign currency to buy two refuse compactors.”
Ms Gwatipedza said most of the trucks had broken down and there was need for the city to acquire new trucks for refuse collection, adding that council was hiring trucks from the community to carry out refuse collection.
Ms Gwatipedza said before the arrival of the two compactors residents and companies should assist council through clubs to collect waste from their respective areas.
“The refuse collection trucks are down and we only have two to service the whole city,” she said. “In response to this, we have decided to engage the community through community-based organizations, which will help in the collection of waste while we wait for the new trucks,” she said.
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