Rich Booty of Waste Collected at 2017 SA Navy Festival
The Plastics SA Clean-Up crews were once again in action at this year’s SA Navy Festival that took place at the Simonstown harbour from the 17th to the 19th of March. The SA Navy Festival in Simonstown delivered a large variety of waste, which was carefully sorted and sent for recycling.
According to John Kieser, Plastics SA’s Sustainability Manager and coordinator of the clean-up crews, each year close to 50 000 people visit this event daily for the chance to see some of the country’s biggest naval ships and exhibitions on display.
“This is a very popular festival that is always very well attended by members of the public. As a result, we find that it also produces the biggest variety of waste,” Kieser says. Large volumes of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS), aluminium cooldrink cans and Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE) were sent away for recycling, whilst organic waste was sent away for composting to Noordhoek.
Source: environment.co.za
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