Four-year-old shows support for recycling initiative
Kiash highlighted that he has already started filling up another five-litre juice bottle.
Four-year-old learner Kiash Rambali from Van Dyk Pre-Primary School collected over 500 plastic bottle caps for Freeway Park Primary School’s recycling centre.
This comes after his father, Navin Rambali, read him an article published in the Advertiser last year September about the school’s wheelchair initiative in conjunction with Sweethearts Foundation.
Kiash, who lives in Villa Liza, felt inspired to make a difference when he learnt that all it took was to only collect plastic caps.
According to his father, when he had finished reading out the article to him, Kiash was determined to immediately start collecting the bottle tops.
“With the help of the rest of the family, wherever he went he would pick up bottle caps and fill five-litre juice bottles with them. Now with eight filled, he thought it was best to donate them to Freeway Park Primary,” Rambali said.
Teacher Linda Fröhlich, who’s in charge of the school’s recycling centre and recycling deport, expressed gratitude for the donation received.
The Sweethearts Foundation, through their tops and tags programme, recycle plastic tops and bread tags in exchange for wheelchairs.
It takes around 450kg of plastic tops to get one standard adult wheelchair and 50kg in plastic bread tags to get one standard adult wheelchair.
