Maseru, Dec.21—Though the government through the Ministry of Local Government, Chieftainship, POlice and Home Affairs has allocated M20 million to the Maseru City Council (MCC) to stabilize, rehabilitate and close Ts’osane dumping site, Rothe community where the Ts’osane dumping site is being relocated to have mixed feelings regarding the move.
The current Ts’osane dumping site is being relocated to Rothe as Ts’oeneng Sanitary Landfill, something that the residents feel that is unfair that garbage is moved from Ha-Ts’osane where it has for years impacted on the health, environment and social well-being of the community.
The sanitary landfill is an engineered facility that separates and confines waste. Sanitary landfills are intended as biological reactors in which microbes will break down complex organic waste into simpler, less toxic compounds over time.
One Mrs. ‘Mamosebi Mokhele said they still do not understand why the dumping site which has posed health risks including air, water and soil-borne diseases for the Ts’osane community for years is being moved to their area where they are far from services such as hospitals, fire and rescue station in case fire broke as it did at Ha-Ts’osane.
She said, “The government cannot move garbage from Maseru and bring it here, we are not going to live like the Ha-Tsosane community in a stinking environment”…
