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The 3Rs Team
organized the following
Recycling-Environmental projects for
Hout Bay schools and community in 2008:
1. Leave
your Waste Behind at Hout Bay
Supermarkets - March 08
The four events were a great success and 274
shoppers entered the “Know your waste”
competition. There were several lucky
winners of the Hampers kindly donated by the
4 Hout bay Supermarkets. The purpose of this
drive was to educate both shoppers and
suppliers as to how non- recyclable
packaging is having a serious and
detrimental impact on us and our world, and
to encourage packaging manufacturers to use
more recyclable materials and to mark them
clearly.
2. 220
Recycle Bins in Hout Bay Classrooms -
March 08
Many thanks to Appletiser who sponsored 220
Recycle bins, one for every classroom in
Hout Bay. We trust that you have created an
effective system of collection and are
delivering your schools recycling to the
Hout Bay Depot. If you need assistance
contact Headman Sotyantya on 072 388 5901.
REMEMBER - 80% of what you throw away can
be RE-USED.
3.
Environmental Show at Mainstream
-14 March 08
Well done to Carrie Searle and Rubbles who
delighted and inspired young Hout Bay
children to be Planet Warriors.
4. Sentinel
News Enviroquiz & EnviroArt - May and
June 08
We thank you for participating in the
Sentinel News EnviroQuiz & EnviroArt
Interschool competitions on World
Environment day, 5th June. We trust that you
gained much practical environmental
knowledge and that you continue to use the
City’s SMART Living Handbook on Waste,
Energy, Water and Biodiversity
5. Hout Bay
Recycling Depot - July 08 to present
Jemimah
Birch has mentored the Hout Bay Recycling
Cooperative to sort and sell all the
recyclable waste brought to the Hout Bay
Depot. Congratulations to Nokwanda and her
team of 10 for their determined efforts
during a very cold, wet winter. Thank you
also to Robin Harper for his clear
bookkeeping support. Out of the sale of the
sorted Hout Bay recyclable waste, each
member of the cooperative has earned a
monthly minimum wage.
We look forward
to working together in 2009 to enhance
environmental awareness and to creating a
more sustainable future in Hout Bay for all!
Happy Holidays!
Bronwen
Lankers-Byrne
790 1597/790
7226/082 3183308
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Invitation to Hout Bay
business and industry to RECYCLE and divert recyclable
waste from entering landfill sites.
Dear Hout Bay Business
owner
The impact of climate
change and the need to conserve resources has become a
global issue and, as such, we are forced to rethink how
we manage our local waste.
The City of Cape
Town will roll out a door to door recycling
collection project in 2009, the ‘think twice’
campaign, to run concurrently with its weekly
wheelie bin pickup system. The City, however, only
requires its waste collection contractor to provide this
recycling collection service to private households.
Hout Bay has a strong
history of recycling. During the period 1997 to 2007
business and industry in Hout Bay was encouraged to
recycle via a ‘free pick-up’ of dry recycling by
Kronendal Recycling (led by community volunteer Sheila
Hofmeyr).
The service offered by
Kronendal Recycling was self funded. Currently Hout
Bay Recycling, the community based recycling
organisation managing recycling in Hout Bay, does not
have the funds to collect from your business on a free
basis. We thus invite you to enlist a recycling
collector, such as Busy Boys (Headman 072 388
5901), to transport your recyclables to our local
sorting centre behind the Police Station . For FULL
bakkie loads of recyclables/garden waste you can also
contact the Bio-Bakkie service (www.envirochild.org/biodiesel.htm).
Hout Bay
Restaurants in particular produce large amounts of
dry recyclable waste (cardboard, plastic, tin and
glass), as well as, wet kitchen waste. We encourage you
to seek ways of recycling your kitchen waste by
feeding it to animals (e.g. earthworms as has
been done by the Mount Nelson), by composting or by
trench beds.. If it is not possible to do your own
composting, we suggest you use a organics collection
service, such as that provided by the “Feed the
Earth” bucket exchange system. This uses a
bio-diesel powered bakkie or bicycles for collections of
3 x 20 litre buckets 3 times/week. Costs from R190 to
R270 per month (talfryn@envirochild.org
for more details) A benefit of signing up for the
service is that deliveries of locally grown organic
vegetables from Green PEAS (www.envirochild.org/eat-local.htm)
are then FREE.
The “Feed the Earth”
service also collects used cooking oil from restaurants.
Restaurants are paid for each litre of used oil, and are
encouraged to act as depots for customers to bring their
used cooking oil from home. This will reduce the cost of
the “Feed the Earth” service (which is powered by
biodesel made from used cooking oil!)
Should you recycle all
your waste you can promote your business as providing
excellent service AND being part of the transition to a
green, sustainable Hout Bay.
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