It is just when I thought that there is nothing that a politician or bureaucrat can do that would surprise me that they manage to pull another rabbit from their hat.
Big was my surprise when I opened my mail and received a notice from the City of Cape Town that they are going to provide me with a recycle bin.
Can you believe this?
Not a new tax, but indeed an initiative to start recycling! At last!
Did you know, according to the pamphlet, that on a year average, every person living in Cape Town throws away about 1, 5 kilograms of waste every day? This totals a massive 2, 3 million tons a year.
At first I thought the 2, 3 million tons was per citizen, but after quick revision of my grade 7 mathematics I realized it was impossible. It was the whole city of Cape Town that roughly wasted the weight of half a million African Elephants!
Can we wait any longer? Can yóú wait a day more?
Start recycling now. This may be our last chance to save our city, and country, from becoming a huge landfill.
And when a species doesn’t learn to fit in with Mother Nature, it gets kicked out. Every day you look in the mirror now, you’re seeing an endangered species. – Rob Watson
It’s not easy being green. – Kermit the Frog