Motivated by an environmental awareness workshop, a team of eco-conscious employees at Carnival City were galvanised to clean-up the complex’s staff parking areas.
This will prevent polluted run-off from contaminating the surrounding wetland and nearby streams, and conserve the aquatic life. Applying in the field what they had learned at the workshop, the team, supported by operations manager Elroy van Blerk, health and safety manager Gavin Jooste and environmental officer Annah Pholose, set about cleaning hydrocarbon spillages in the staff parking area.
Currently, this parking area is not included in the contract of the service provider responsible for the cleaning of the customer parking bays.
The extensive clean-up project was activated on March 17, to coincide with National Water Week, which ran from March 16 to 22.
National Water Week is marked annually as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
A team from Bidvest Top-Turf cleaned the wetland on March 18 and 19, to remove litter which accumulates on rainy days.
Aside from cleaning-up, the initiative also served to educate Carnival City employees about the importance of protecting and preserving the environment, and encouraged them to take responsibility for using and managing water in a sustainable way.
“We want to encourage our employees to take pride in their surroundings and to avoid being part of the problem of environmental pollution and degradation, and, instead, join Carnival City in going green.
“We all have a responsibility to take care of the environment and use our precious natural resources mindfully, especially water which is scarce,” said Michelle Smith, the marketing manager for Carnival City.
