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The Green Ghoen

 All this fuss about being white, black or coloured is a puff of smoke in the bigger picture of things.

The only colour that really matters is Green!  And in how green are you?

From my early childhood I can remember a book titled Die Groen Ghoen written by well known Afrikaans writer PH Nortjé.  Last year Gys de Villiers used roughly the same title and wrote a play called Groen Ghoen. A play that ask questions about how man is treating our one and only planet, mother earth.

I have decided that I will name my new recycle bin, in honour of the book and play, Die Groen Ghoen (The Big Green Marble).

The act of christening my bin fills me with anticipation and excitement. There may just be enough time left to save the earth … and ourselves.

 Let’s look at just a few recycling benefits:

• A well-run recycling program cost less to operate than waste collection, land filling and incineration.
• Recycling creates four jobs for every one created in the waste management and disposal industries.
• Every ton of paper that is recycled saves 17 trees.
• The energy we save when we recycle one glass bottle is enough to light a light bulb for four hours.
• Recycling conserves natural resources, such as timber, water and minerals.

It’s a proven fact that recycling benefits both the economy and the environment. And what benefits these two, benefits me and you!

Come on, where’s your recycle bin? 

Dit is nou of nooit!

Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment. – Richard Branson

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. – Jacques Cousteau

Beam me up Scotty. There’s no intelligent life down here. – Bumper Sticker

Source: http://www.recycling-revolution.com

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