DURBANITES are invited to join a fun ‘City Clean-Up’ drive on Saturday, 13 October  where the streets of Durban will be cleaned in the prelude to the second annual FNB Durban 10K CITYSURFRUN that will take place on Sunday (14 October).
The Durban City Clean-Up will start at 7am on Saturday, 13 October with volunteers meeting at the Durban City Hall.

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Event partner, PETCO (South Africa’s national industry body accountable for managing the PET plastic industry’s Extended Producer Responsibility) will provide the bags and gloves that will be used during the clean-up, while Sagren Moodley (a private local waste management contractor) will oversee the collection and sorting of the litter that will be collected.

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“PETCO’s mission is to grow the collection and recycling of PET plastic, after consumer use.  We believe clean-ups have an important role to play in shifting South Africa away from a ‘take-make-dispose’ system to a circular economy by ensuring that valuable resources, such as PET plastic bottles, are diverted from landfill and collected for recycling.   A 65 per cent recycling rate was reached in 2017, which means 5.7 million bottles were collected for recycling each and every day in 2017,” said Janine Basson, PETCO Stakeholder and Relations Manager.  

How to get involved:
Meet at: Durban City Clean-Up
Date:  Saturday, 13 October 2018
Venue:  Durban City Hall
Time:  7am to 9pm

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