Please do not leave household waste – be it in wheelie bins or bags – on the pavement overnight or place it out for collection on any other day.
No refuse bags may be left on pavements in baboon affected areas, and all household waste must be secured in locked baboon-proof bins.
Waste should only be placed out for collection early (before 07:00) on the morning of the scheduled collection day.
The following limitations apply:
- Wet waste: Each household is allowed to place out one 240ℓ wheelie bin or a maximum of four bags.
- Recyclable waste: There is no limitation on the number of clear plastic bags containing clean recyclable waste (e.g. glass, plastic, cardboard, paper and tins) that can be placed out for collection.
- Garden waste: No more than one bag containing garden waste may be placed out for collection.
Garden waste:
All garden and green waste can be disposed of at one of the following facilities for chipping/composting:
- Pearly Beach drop-off
- Gansbaai landfill site
- Stanford drop-off
- Voëlklip Prawn Flats drop-off
- Hermanus transfer station
- Kleinmond transfer station
- Betty’s Bay garden waste drop-off site.
Most of these facilities are open from 08:00 till 17:00 on weekdays as well as on Saturdays and public holidays for shorter hours of operation.
While transporting your garden waste, cover and secure your load with tarpaulins or nets.
According to the Integrated Waste Management municipal by-law a person transporting waste through the municipal area must ensure that:
- loose waste on an open vehicle is covered with a tarpaulin or suitable net; and
- no waste become detached, leaks or falls from the vehicle transporting it.
There is no cost involved if the bakkie load of garden waste is less than 1 ton. Loads bigger than 1 ton, may be subject to a disposal fee, depending on the volume and type of waste.
Large stumps and tree roots which are too large for chipping, need to be delivered directly to the landfill sites and not the garden waste drop off sites.
Note also that the Karwyderskraal regional landfill site currently does not accept any unchipped garden waste for disposal and will only accept chipped material which they can compost on site.
Builders’ rubble:
Only Kleinmond Transfer station and the Hawston, Hermanus, Stanford and Pearly Beach drop-off facilities accept small builder’s rubble loads, (less than 1 ton).
Note that they will not accept loads of builders’ rubble which are greater than 1 ton load capacity or greater than 250mm in size or not clean. (i.e. contaminated with general waste or planks etc that probably originated from a construction or demolition site).
Larger loads need to be disposed of at either the Gansbaai or Karwyderskraal landfill site.
General waste:
Volumes at the smaller drop off facilities are limited to loads of less than 1 ton, the Kleinmond Transfer Station and Hermanus drop off will accept general waste loads of up to a maximum of 3 tons, note that disposal of loads over 1 ton will incur a disposal fee as per the published tariff list. Any loads over 3 tons will have to go directly to one of the two landfill sites for disposal and charged at the applicable rate.
Recycling materials:
Larger volumes of separated recyclable materials should please be delivered to one of our Material Recovery Facilities (MRF’s) located at either the Gansbaai landfill site or Hermanus Drop-off facility.
Smaller volumes of recyclable materials may be off loads at any of our general waste drop off sites and we will then deliver the material to our closet MRF for sorting and recycling. PRESS RELEASE
