Freedom Park residents celebrate Earth Day
Earth Day is an annual event which is celebrated on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection as well as a way to increase public awareness about environmental issues.
The Waterkloof Rotary Club , Rotary Community Corps Johannesburg South together with Anane Community Project and Good Deeds joined hands as they embarked on the first peace building initiative and Earth Day commemoration on April 22.
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The day saw residents also join in to celebrate Earth Day in a peace walk from Freedom Park Secondary School and made a stop at Anane Community Project where residents were taught about the importance of recycling and ended at the park where more stakeholders had presentation on the importance of the day.
Earth Day is an annual event which is celebrated on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection as well as a way to increase public awareness about environmental issues.
Anane Community Project was established in 2014 by Daisy Ntuli and Alberto Ndeve with an aim of helping to keep the area clean as well as educating residents on importance of recycling, reducing and re-using resources.
“Recycling is one of the ways we can help residents, especially young people to keep bread on the table, but unfortunately some people are not educated when it comes to recycling and the skills that it needs. This is why we need such initiatives to help provide education to residents,” Anane Community Projects co-founder, Daisy Ntuli said.
She added that they specialise in collecting and recycling materials such as plastic, bottles, glass as well as paper and the value of the recycled material differ depending on the market.
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“Over time we were able to design and develop a glass machinery we use to break down the recycled glass, and this shows that we can do anything we put our minds to. Anane Community Project is open to assist young people w
ho are into recycling and for more information they can come to us, we will assist.”
Speaking on the importance of preserving and taking care of the environment, Rotarian Peace Ambassador, Sophia Lebusa said, “The Rotary is here to support our communities, not through giving money but through offering support to community work.
“Today is one of the important days because we learn about the importance of taking care of our environment.
“We only have one earth and if we do not take care of it we will not preserve our generations,” Sophia Lubusa said.
According to the City’s bylaws on illegal dumping, no person may dump waste or remove anything from any receptacle which has been placed for the purposes of collecting litter in such a manner as to cause any of the contents of the receptacle to spill from it.
Residents are urged to report all illegal dumping activities to Pikitup on 011 688 1500.
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