CLEANING & WASTE MANAGEMENT
The new standard is ‘Level 0’ cleanliness 24 hours a day. Nothing less will do! The FMPZ was in a neglected state when it was handed over to DSFM, who immediately committed to a 24-hour operation. DSFM (PZ) Facilities Manager Wendy Gibson- Taylor: “Previously, if litter ended up in a flower bed, the parks department wouldn’t remove it because it wasn’t plant matter and the waste-removal company wouldn’t remove it because it wasn’t allowed into the landscaped areas. So the litter mounted up.”
DSFM contracted both a landscaping company and cleaning company, creating a workable overlap which ensured that the basic job of tidying up in the FMPZ would get done every day. DSFM and Durban Solid Waste agreed that ‘level 0’ cleanliness could, and would, be implemented and maintained. To achieve this goal, extra Top-up resources were brought in; Tsebo Cleaning now supplements the city’s cleaning services. They in turn are contractually bound to maintain the set standard of ‘level 0’ cleanliness, 24 hours a day.