Shurugwi Town Council (Anti-litter) By-laws, 2025

These by-laws apply throughout the Shurugwi Town Council area. Owners and occupiers of premises must provide an adequate number of receptacles in and around their business area, and littering, sweeping waste into gutters, road reserves or culverts, and interfering with public litter bins are prohibited.

Unauthorised disposal or dumping is separately prohibited, and the council may require a person to take reasonable measures to prevent it. Articles reasonably regarded as abandoned — judged by where they lie, for how long and in what condition — may be removed and disposed of by the council, as may anything chained or fastened to a council pole or parking meter without authority.

Where waste accumulates on premises so as to create or risk a nuisance, the council may make a special removal and charge the owner or occupier the applicable tariff.

The fixed penalties are US$100 for sweeping waste into a gutter, road reserve or culvert, and US$20 each for depositing litter in a public place, disturbing or removing anything from a public litter receptacle, failing to provide adequate bins, failing to pick up litter dropped in the course of business, and depositing or abandoning litter in a public place.

Shurugwi's littering penalty of US$20 is a tenth of the US$200 set by Murewa's anti-litter by-laws gazetted in December, though its gutter-sweeping penalty is half again as high.