Pikitup Partners With Sandton City To Implement Separation At Source Programme
Pikitup Partners With Sandton City To Implement Separation At Source Programme. The quest to ensure that the City of Johannesburg preserves the lifespan of its remaining landfill sites and increase the economic benefits of the recycling industry to create jobs and other by-products has seen the establishment of a partnership between Pikitup and Exellerate Managed Services. Exellerate Managed Services Precinct Management is responsible for managing business in the Sandton areas and ensuring that the area is spotlessly clean.
According to the City of Johannesburg, The partnership has also resulted in Exellerate Managed Services Precinct Management embracing the separation at source programme and committing to overseeing the effective implementation of the programme by businesses in the Sandton area. Sandton is the main business and boasts key financial sector players in Johannesburg and on the continent. It is home to well over 10 000 businesses and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange is also based in the area.
The concentration and proliferation of business in a single area means that volumes of waste are generated, including recyclable waste such as card boxes and plastics to mention but a few. It is against this backdrop that instead of collecting recyclable waste and disposing them at landfill sites, such waste must be separated from the general waste and be recycled to produce other products as opposed to disposing it in landfill sites. Although this partnership is still at its infancy, it has already seen about 28 general cleaners and supervisors receive training by Pikitup on the separation at source programme before the programme is introduced to all the business operating in the area.
The City of Johannesburg stated that, the training content covered: defining the environment; differentiating between waste and litter; identifying the waste types; the origins of waste; the movement of waste; how is waste a problem to people and the environment; the waste management cycle and hierarchy (National Waste Management Strategy); the link between poor waste management practices and climate change; how to stop littering and recycling and its advantages.
The second phase of the partnership will see the partners embark on an environmental education and awareness campaign in all the shops in shopping malls in the Sandton inner city.
