Cape Town - A total of 500 rubbish bins with a soccer theme are currently being placed around the Cape Town airport as part of a recycling project to promote the World Cup soccer tournament's Green Goal campaign.
Another 700 will subsequently be installed at the airports of other host cities. The aim is to eventually have 100 000 of these bins throughout the country within a couple of years.
On Thursday Jeremy Droyman, managing director of the firm Don't Waste Services (DWS), which designed the containers and does recycling at the Cape Town airport, said that South Africans could use the opportunity to show the world that, through recycling and minimising their waste, they were helping to reduce the impact of littering the environment, and were thus combating climate change.
Currently 92% of all rubbish countrywide is put in black bags and deposited on dump sites. Many of these sites are already overflowing.
The soccer bins, in the colours of the national flag (with lids resembling half a soccer ball), will help people separate their waste from the outset and facilitate recycling.
Glass can be deposited in blue bins, organic waste in green ones, and plastics in yellow.
- Sake24.com
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