{"id":65534,"date":"2025-12-21T16:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/community-mixed-feelings-on-landfill-issues"},"modified":"2025-12-21T17:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:03:25","slug":"community-mixed-feelings-on-landfill-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/community-mixed-feelings-on-landfill-issues","title":{"rendered":"Community Mixed Feelings on Landfill Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ap-summary\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n<h4>What You Need to Know<\/h4>\n<p>Residents of Rothe are expressing mixed feelings about the government&#8217;s decision to relocate the Ts\u2019osane dumping site to their area. While the Ministry of Local Government has allocated funds for the stabilization and rehabilitation of the site, many locals are concerned about the potential health risks and environmental impact of having a landfill nearby.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong> <\/span>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\u2019osane dumping site, Rothe community where the Ts\u2019osane dumping site is being relocated to have mixed feelings regarding the move.<\/p>\n<p>The current Ts\u2019osane dumping site is being relocated to Rothe as Ts\u2019oeneng Sanitary Landfill, something that the residents feel that is unfair that garbage is moved from Ha-Ts\u2019osane where it has for years impacted on the health, environment and social well-being of the community.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>One Mrs. \u2018Mamosebi 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\u2019osane 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\u2019osane.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cThe 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\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Ts\u2019osane dumping site has been a source of health and environmental concerns for the Ha-Ts\u2019osane community for years. The government&#8217;s decision to relocate the site to Rothe has sparked a debate about the fairness of moving waste from one community to another, especially given the potential risks involved. Residents fear that the new location will replicate the issues faced by their neighbors, including exposure to air, water, and soil-borne diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Sanitary landfills are designed to manage waste in a way that minimizes environmental impact. However, the concerns raised by the Rothe community highlight the challenges of waste management in urban areas, where the proximity of landfills<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Lesotho<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What You Need to Know Residents of Rothe are expressing mixed feelings about the government&#8217;s decision to relocate the Ts\u2019osane dumping site to their area. While the Ministry of Local Government has allocated funds for the stabilization and rehabilitation of the site, many locals are concerned about the potential health risks and environmental impact of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":65533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[334,566,227,6951,245,584],"class_list":["post-65534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-community","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-landfill","tag-lesotho","tag-maseru"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Community Mixed Feelings on Landfill Issues - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Residents express mixed feelings about the relocation of the Ts\u2019osane landfill to Rothe, citing health and environmental Conc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/community-mixed-feelings-on-landfill-issues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Community Mixed Feelings on Landfill Issues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Residents express mixed feelings about the relocation of the Ts\u2019osane landfill to Rothe, citing health and environmental Conc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/community-mixed-feelings-on-landfill-issues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-12-21T16:51:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-21T17:03:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/12\/sm_1766336522.09391.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/community-mixed-feelings-on-landfill-issues#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/community-mixed-feelings-on-landfill-issues\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Community Mixed Feelings on Landfill Issues\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-12-21T16:51:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-21T17:03:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/community-mixed-feelings-on-landfill-issues\"},\"wordCount\":413,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/community-mixed-feelings-on-landfill-issues#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/12\/sm_1766336522.09391.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"community\",\"Environment\",\"Health\",\"landfill\",\"Lesotho\",\"Maseru\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/community-mixed-feelings-on-landfill-issues#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/community-mixed-feelings-on-landfill-issues\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/community-mixed-feelings-on-landfill-issues\",\"name\":\"Community Mixed Feelings on Landfill Issues - 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