Catering Staff from Inkwenkwezi High School also Recycle

November 1, 2011 / by admin / 2 Comments / Filed under Swop Shop

For the 2 catering ladies from the Inkwenkwezi High School nothing is too much! They arrive just after lunch every Tuesday with their 5 bags of tins (the very large pilchard variety) and 6 bags of cardboard boxes (that the tins came in). These ladies drag their pungent bags of empty oily fish tins from the school next door to the Recycle Swop Shop, leaving a trail of pongy tomatoey liquid… “Ya gotta love them!”.

They do a balancing act with heavy bags of cardboard on their heads in the South Easter, quite a sight! And we cheer them on and offer them a chair after their hard work. They relax, we give them their tokens and we have a giggle at the smell and tell stories about how our cats are all going to love us when we get back home. We are growing and becoming more of a family of recyclers. Recognising regulars and greeting them with affection.

We are excited about bringing a new Loyalty card scheme next week. Keep posted to find out more. Huge Thank you to ZoneOne, Table View for sponsoring all the printing!

We had 68 ladies and 1 man today, that brought a total of 2819 kg of recycling.

Cardboard & Paper = 1422 kg
Plastic = 863 kg
Glass = 471 kg
Tin = 63 kg (Mostly thanks to our catering ladies!)