Local learners clean up the neighbourhood
Taal-Net Kempton Park held a clean-up campaign to honour World Environment Day.
Taal-Net Kempton Park held a clean-up campaign on June 5 to celebrate World Environment Day.
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People from more than 150 countries participate in this United Nations international day, which celebrates environmental action and the power of governments, businesses and individuals to create a more sustainable world.
Taal-Net partnered with the EMPD and the Department of Environmental Health (DEH) for the clean-up.
The EMPD officers gave a safety talk, emphasising the do’s and don’ts of the campaign.
Environmental health practitioner Raymond Pieterse gave learners an environmental talk, which included information on what pollution is and how it could be used to protect the environment.
Kenneth Baloyi, another environmental health practitioner, spoke about the recent cholera outbreak and how that related to environmental health.
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The learners received gloves and refuse bags before the clean-up started.
Accompanied by the EMPD officers, the clean-up began on 51 Maxwell Road and ended at the old Kempton Park Swimming Pool.
Fifteen refuse bags of waste were collected, taken to the Highveld Waste Transfer Station, and received by Mawethu Faye, an employee there.
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