Fountain Rivers Earth Sanctuary Hennops (FRESH) has embarked on a water cleanup mission pilot project in Clayville, Tembisa, South Africa.
FRESH Director Willem Snyman said the organisation started putting the nets up at the beginning of the rainy season.
‘It seems like in the winter a lot of stuff gets in informal dumps in the townships and stuff, so all of that stuff gets washed down in the rainy season’, he said.
‘So it keeps on the whole summer but I think the worst stuff is in the beginning. So we are trying to stop it here’.
A volunteer and an unemployed Clayville resident, SSibusiso Dlomo, said, ‘I think this project is quite an opportunity for the guys in the community because some of us now we can… it already created employment for us and then at the same time this place, these plastics make this environment very dirty in such a way that it’s a very dangerous environment to people’.
With the data and systems developed from this river cleanup, FRESH says it hopes to take on the rest of the rivers in South Africa.
Source: Africa News
Photo source: Fresh.ngo
