To be a working city, we need to be a clean city.
The A Re Sebetseng city-wide clean-up campaign strives to encourage all of Johannesburg’s residents to take care of the environment; and seeks to promote a culture of reducing, re-using, and recycling our waste to ensure that Johannesburg becomes one of the cleanest cities in Africa.
Today, we are once again sign Memorandums of Understanding and Pledges of Support with Joburg businesses and organizations to make our city clean.
Thank you to the following companies for coming on-board and for support our vision or achieving a clean, investor-friendly and safe City.
This is the third signing of the pledge and this time involves the waste industry:
Coca Cola; Total; Joburg CID Forum; The Miss Earth SA Foundation; Kobus Otto & Associates; Delta Bec; Tedcor; Enviroserv; Mojanation; Mpact; Interwaste; Remade; Metal & Papers; Plastics SA; Petco; Polyco; Traffic Net; Phambili Services; Averda SA; Carrus; Avis; TFM Industries; Adcock Ingam; Waohost; The Waste Group; and Boitumelong.
Together, the City and businesses can create a city we can be proud of; together we can work towards the best case scenario – a clean, beautiful, world-class city; and together, we can find innovative, mutually beneficial ways of ensuring we live, work, and play in a clean Johannesburg.
The campaign takes place every last Saturday of the month for 2017 and going forward in 2018 it will be on the third Saturday of every month.
The purpose is to raise awareness whilst educating and encouraging residents to manage waste effectively and to take care of their environment. The campaign, in line with the City’s by-laws, also aims to address issues of littering, illegal dumping, overloading of bins, and dilapidation of open spaces that usually results in the manifestation of pests.
The campaign is facilitated by Pikitup but it is the responsibility of all Councillors, city departments, and regional offices to drive the programme.
Plastic bags and gloves are distributed at walk-in centres, clinics, libraries, and participating businesses. Filled bags are collected on the same day by Pikitup. As A Re Sebetseng gains momentum and the City enters into pledge signing and memorandums of understanding, we are reaching more and more communities and realising the vision of the campaign.