A plan comes together in Kleinmond

Writer & Photographer: Elaine Davie.

They registered the community’s unhappiness; they saw an opportunity and they decided: ‘Let’s see if we can make a plan.’ And that’s how Better World Recycling came into being in Kleinmond last week. But not before the Swarts and Beurel families of Beverley Hills had conducted a thorough feasibility study and worked out a careful development plan.

After a second attempt at resuscitating Walker Bay Recycling had failed, the environmentally-conscious residents of Kleinmond threw up their hands in despair. It seemed it would take a long time and tangles of bureaucratic red tape before an official solution would be found. And what could they do with their diligently separated recyclables until then? As far as the Swarts family was concerned, the junk was already piling up in their back yard.

Recyclable products pile up in the Swarts family’s backyard as they search for another place to store them. From left are Valencia Beurel, her father, Egon Swarts, mother Brigethe and husband, Eric.

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