The Awards Ceremony for the YES Environmental Drama Festival took place in the main theatre of the Baxter Theatre Centre on Saturday 27 July 2013. The festival is one of the youth development initiatives of the City of Cape Town’s Youth Environmental School (YES) programme. This year the theme of the Festival was: ‘Smart Living. Smart Saving – Electricity Savings and … [Read more...]
Woman in waste shows us how
“I have a confession to make. I wasn't born a greenie, I didn't have a passion for it at high school or anything like that. I was actually in banking, believe it or not.” So starts my interview with Anthea Hartzenberg. No, she doesn’t waste anything, not even words! Anthea is the owner of Recycle 1st – a waste recovery business collecting recyclables from 245 households and … [Read more...]
Oostenberg residents slow to recycle
Some folk are just too 'comfortable' to appreciate a good thing, or do they just not care? The latest roll-out of the City of Cape Town's Think Twice curb side recycling system to the Durbanville area is particularly slow on the uptake. Since August 1st the Oostenburg area joined the Think Twice program with other suburbs to have their clean recyclables collected from … [Read more...]
Northern suburbs join curb-side recycling
This month another milestone in the roll out of waste minimisation in our country is reached, when Cape Town's northern suburbs join the Think Twice curb-side recycling initiative to have their domestic recyclables collected and transported to a nearby materials recovery centre. Altogether 38 000 new households from Welgemoed to Kraaifontein, north of the N1, will now … [Read more...]
Spring is poison time in the Boland
I trust it is safe to say that spring has finally arrived in the Cape. And with it comes gorgeous flower, blossoms, birds and beautiful burst of colour. I have already been lucky to receive in my garden an active team of bees pollinating my mostly indigenous flowers, unlike many parts of the world where the bees are disappearing due to illnesses and also the indiscriminate use … [Read more...]
