Wesbank, changed by the Recycle Swop Shop
Community volunteers
We’ve had a great year at Wesbank No. 1 Primary school where we have been running the Recycle Swop Shop since March 2013. Our partnership with the school and the Head Master Mr Greg Gordon have been amazing, also our team of project leaders from TMF, Save All and Recycle 1st have insured this project has been a success.
Effects on the community
A small smile, a big step!
There is a little boy, Maxwell; he is eight years old but sadly has the body of a 4 year old. He regularly comes with his recycling to swop shop and on the 4th of December, the last day of Swop Shop, he brought his parents to meet us and for the first time we saw him smile!! ๐ It was a very proud smile! We are so touched by the children and community at Wesbank No.1 primary school and we continue to see how their lives are being changed.
Weโre seeing an increase in the amount of plastic being collected and the learners and community are enthusiastic and understand the general workings of this project. We are seeing an increasing amount of older folk attending swop shop and this is certainly encouraging in terms of educating the younger members of the family and also in terms of providing for the needs of the older generation.
The learners make up the majority of the participants at Swop Shop and at our last collection day there were over 250 children! There is a real social buzz at swop shop in Wesbank and itโs wonderful to see the ladies meeting each other and discussing not only recycling issues but also their home groups and get togethers. One lady made a comment that Wesbank has never been so clean. Thatโs so great to hear!
Lollypops given to all!
Thank you to Brenda Evans and Sybil Vermeulen, who generously donated 1000 lolly pops to hand out to the children attending the Recycle Swop Shop at Wesbank no 1 primary school and Inkwenkwezi secondary school.
The total recyclables collected from March to November 2013:
| Description | Sum of Quantity (Kgs) |
| White Paper | 1670 |
| Cardboard | 3763 |
| Newspaper and Mags | 3120 |
| Tetrapak + common Mix | 337 |
| PET | 5761 |
| HD (2) | 454.5 |
| Polyprop | 385 |
| Soft Plastic | 787 |
| Tops | 311 |
| Mixed Plastic | 173 |
| Tins | 817 | Glass | 40 |
| Grand Total | 17,618.5 |
Provided by Recycle 1st
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