EDITOR – Dear councillors, can we recycle and save our village, country, world!
Everybody knows the story of the Starfish – one step towards changing the world.
The ocean is also filled by ‘drops of water’. Can we make this year a top recycling year for Amanzimtoti.
Every little bit from every person in our beautiful town helps. We want to save our planet, which Amanzimtoti forms part of. The newspaper headline in Die Beeld on Monday, 4 January is ‘Ons gaan BRAAI!’ – 39 degrees Celsius is expected for Durban on Thursday – another heat wave.
The climate is changing, the world is getting hotter and we all can do something. Much has been written on this subject, but we are so busy with our lives that we forget about the world that we need, it’s not a world that needs us.
To whom it may concern: Can somebody please take responsibility for recycling in Toti this year. Our orange bag supply for paper and plastic ran out months ago. People started buying orange bags from shops in the area. The shops ran out of stock – we are using black bags for all our garbage again.
My heart aches every time I put paper, plastic bottles, containers and packets in my black bag for DSW to pick up. I stopped the plastic and paper pick-up truck to ask them for bags on more than one occasion last year, they promised to deliver. But nothing happened.
So now, I just send a silent prayer up with every bit of plastic I put in my bag – hoping that it will be found by the garbage dump scavengers and trash mongers – looking for recyclable treasures to make some bread money with.
Here and there you still see a lonely orange bag on waste pick-up days in Amanzimtoti, but the orange bags are getting fewer, not because of Toti-ites being indifferent.
They took away our plastic recycling cages years ago and replaced it with the orange bag system that is getting weaker like the Rand.
Durban even has white bags for metal and tins and clear bags for glass. Come on dear councillors, please assist us. Three-quarter of most households waste is plastic and paper from packaging. We need more orange bags than black bags. Organic matter can be put in your compost bin.
We want to be a blue flag town dear councillors, please assist us and let us know what we as Toti-ites can do. If the municipality is too busy, can they not outsource recycling to private companies?
DON’T KILL THE WORLD
