Recycling isn't just good for the environment...
Monday, February 15, 2010
Interesting article about the benefits of recycling, above and beyond keeping stuff out of our landfills sites, and relevant to todays economical problems...
"Wells said that in the Makana local municipality centred on Grahamstown it was forecast that if half of the waste were diverted from landfills and separated by households, making it readily available to waste pickers, it could create more than 400 jobs.
Musa Chamane, the waste campaign manager at environmental justice organisation groundWork, said that in big cities many more jobs could be created."
read on....http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5309018
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