City cleansing Levy
Staff Writer6 April 2021 BusinessTech
The City of Johannesburg has proposed the formal introduction of a ‘recycling levy’ as part of its 2021/2022 tariff changes.
Included as a separate charge from the refuse levy, the recycling charge will focus on the ‘separation of waste at the source of generation’ – which includes households.
As part of the proposed levy, affluent households in various suburbs – excluding those located in areas classified as township or informal settlement – will be charged an additional levy at R50 per month for all properties with a market value above R350,000.
The city’s waste management bylaws have made it mandatory for every household within the City of Johannesburg’s jurisdiction to separate waste at their households and businesses.
Johannesburg’s waste management provider Pikitup has also said it will be rolling out a full programme for the collection of recyclables from households.
A pilot system, which is already in place in some suburbs, provides households with two plastic bags – a black one for general refuse and a blue one for recyclable waste.
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The Tshwane metro has revised its “cleansing levy” fees, MMC of finance, Mare-Lise Fourie has confirmed.
Fourie said the metro was aware the implementation of the levy was problematic. The levy is payable to the metro by estates that use a private contractor for refuse removal.
“The metro undertook to refund the levies raised from July and confirmed implementation was postponed to January this year,” she said, adding that customers had already been refunded.
She said levies billed to individual sectional title units instead of the body corporate would also be “corrected”. “The city cleansing levy must be charged per bin as previously billed to the body corporate,” she said.
She said the following principles were applicable for the re-introduction of the levy:
Residential:
– Properties valued below R120 000 will be levied R88.99 a month.
– All other residential properties, including sectional title units, will be levied R127.04.
Business/Other properties:
– Property valued below R1 million will be charged R127.04.
– Property valued above R1 million will be charged R2 911.67.
Fourie said 104 092 properties were affected by the levy.
She said during the review, the metro had identified a number of properties that required further inspections to establish relevant facts. “The process has assisted the finance department in identifying inaccurate accounts and updating the debtor database,” she said.


