Filed under: Customers, Environment, Global Warming, Lifestyle, Organic, Service in SA | Tags: Go Green, Mondi, recycling, Service Delivery, South Africa
Well woman have to be the best at maintaining themselves, but I have to say sometimes people scare me when they don’t maintain themselves or their surroundings. It would be great if everyone just stopped littering and started recycling – yah dream on….
I had to laugh the other day when I received a certificate from Mondi recycling saying that I’ve become a mutual partner with them and thanking me for taking this step forward – when I have been trying to get in touch with these people for the last 2 months. They just don’t return calls / answer mails. I’ve wanted a recycling bin from them since September and now I am wrestling through these papers daily to get to my desk. My make shift recycling bin is pretty nifty even though no-one comes to collect any of it so the pile gets higher and higher but I’m deteremined to keep on doing it until maybe one day someone from a recycling company rocks up – maybe in my dreams in South Africa. I’ve actually emailed a few recycling companies, and to my surprise haven’t heard a word…..it’s like they really don’t want new clients they really don’t want us to be GREEN???
All I want to do is recycle so can someone hook me up with a company that is wanting my recyclable goods….
Desperatley seeking South African Recycler….
Filed under: Environment, Global Warming, Life | Tags: earth, emergency, green, recycling, tips, vegetarian
COME ON PEOPLE!!! It’s about time you became green (a recycler or even better a vegetarian), but I know it’s a tall order for most humans, giving up what they love (meat-heads) and practicing karma yoga (cleaning up after ourselves).
So hopefully I can turn one more person into an Earth Child or an Earth Addict if you’re not one already. If you’re not then you have a lot to learn so start educating yourself, I can help you out with 10 great tips that will make a difference to Mother Earth:
- Turn off equipment like televisions and stereos when you’re not using them. That little red standby light means they’re still using power – and that means a contribution to global warming.
- Save water:
- turn off the tap when brushing your teeth.
- collect the water used to wash vegetables and salad to water your houseplants. - Recycle your paper, glass, plastics and other waste. Drop off at Recycling Depot that’s closest to you. [Department of Environmental Affairs & Development Planning].
- Use rechargeable batteries
- Send e-greetings instead of paper cards.
- Take your own bags to the shops to carry home your groceries and shopping – Woolies have great ones in all cool colours.
- Buy organically grown fruits, vegetables, cotton clothing, and hemp-fibre products. Become a vegetarian!!!
- Don’t buy bottled water if you know your tap water is safe – transporting water from its source to the supermarket shelves is an expensive waste of energy. And the plastic and glass bottles add to the already-high mountains of rubbish that we produce. Find out from your municipality about your tap water. If you do buy bottled water, buy from a local source (read the labels) and buy water that comes in recyclable glass or plastic.
- Choose biodegradable cleaning products so that the chemicals have fewer negative impacts on the soil and water system.
- Use recycled paper.
FURTHER READING:
The Green Consumer Guide by I Elkington and I Hailes. Collancz, 1988.
How to be Green by J Button, Century, 1988.
Once is Not Enough, Recycling Directory, Argus, 1990.
Your Guide to Green Living in South Africa, W McLintock, Londolozi, 1990.
USEFUL ADDRESSES:
Wildlife Society, P O Box 44189, Linden, 2104.
Earthlife Africa, P O Box 176, Observatory, 7935.
Cape Recycling Network, P O Box 238, Hout Bay, 7872.
Posted by: Donna
