Dustbin diggers given new wheels
You can contribute to this community project by sponsoring a trolley monthly.
A nursery school decided to give the dustbin digger and plastic collection operating in their street a new lease on life.
Three Nursery School recently launched their community recycling project in support of the environment and their community.
After realising that Louis Sibiya and his two-year-old son Junior used a dilapidated trolley to collect plastic, they decided to manufacture proper trolleys for the hawkers who collect and recycle plastic for a living.
“These trolleys are collected from a central point early in the mornings and returned once they have offloaded their collections for the day,” says Adel Collins of the school.
Junior, who used to travel with his father daily, strapped in a plastic car chair, also has become part of the Three Nursery School. The School offered Junior a place of safety where he could get an education and socially interact with children his age.
Louis is not the only hawker walking the streets.
“They hit the early morning traffic, with their home-made or modified trolleys. The supermarket trolleys are popular, but these get confiscated regularly, as it is illegal to use, and they are stranded with heaps of plastic, and unable to carry it further.”
You can contribute to this community project by sponsoring a trolley monthly.
Your company brand will be on the streets daily and send a positive caring message to the community.
Funds from this project will assist children like Junior with an education and will support a family who recently have lost their father to cancer.
Contact 083 306 2668 if you are interested.
In it’s own right, a commendable gesture. However, all you are doing is promoting the digging in dustbins. Who will be responsible the day that one of these people injure themselves because of a can or broken glass in the bin? What if they eat some leftover foods and get ill / or die? It would be far better to get these people to stop what they are doing, and rather set up a recycling system where the residents can take part in the recycling in a more controlled and beneficial manner. Just my opinion – what they are doing can be dangerous, and assisting them in this activity can make you liable in the event they do suffer some form of injury.
Max